A Piper J-3 Cub flies low over the ground to pick up a message via field panel on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 23 February 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 Piper J-3 Cub (a.k.a. L-4) flies low over the ground of Guadalcanal to pick up a message via field panel. "Artillery reconn.[reconnaissance] plane from the 40th Div. flying over a field panel station to pick up a message. 2-23-44." Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 23 February 1944
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02/23/1944
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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
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160.200
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Airplanes--American--Guadalcanal