A view of the destruction that remained after the brutal fighting on Guadalcanal shows remains of a coconut grove where heavy fighting occurred in 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A view of the destruction that remained after the brutal fighting on Guadalcanal. "'Hell"s half acre' shows remains of a coconut grove where heavy fighting occurred on Guadalcanal (1943)". Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. [1944]

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Date: 
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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
War damage--Guadalcanal
Battlefields--Guadalcanal