A desolate view of Guadalcanal after brutal fighting there where the trees are completely bare on Hell's Half Acre in 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A desolate view of Guadalcanal after brutal fighting there, the trees are completely bare. "'Hell"s Half Acre', Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands." Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. [1944]
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1944
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography:
Guadalcanal
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-9.533
Longitude:
160.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
War damage--Guadalcanal
Battlefields--Guadalcanal