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[Letters Regarding the Invasion of Guadalcanal, 1942]

Description: Letter titled "Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau" painting a humorous picture of Guadalcanal to allied sailors preparing their invasion in the style of a tourism promotion. Letter titled "Guadalcanal Invasion" providing a sailor's personal account of the initial allied invasion of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, experiencing it both from the bridge of his ship and on the beach of Tulagi.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Turner, Richmond Kelly
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: -9.101583 160.147069
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Battle of the Solomons.

Description: Lyrical quatrain poem that rhymes on the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza on the subject of the Battle of the Solomons from the American's perspective.
Date: August 7, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tulagi Specials.

Description: Two couplet rhyming poems composed as lyrics to the a song set to popular tunes. The first two stanzas are lyrics to a song set to the tune of "Shanty in Old Shanty Town" on the subject of horrible conditions at a foxhole on Tulaghi Isle. The second two stanzas are lyrics set to the tune of "My Gal Sal" being a comedic ode to General Douglas MacArthur.
Date: 194X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Negative of Soldiers and Young Boys on Wrecked Plane Wing]

Description: Negative of five soldiers and three young boys sitting and standing around a wrecked plane on a beach. Two of the soldiers sit on the wing of the plane to the left, one shirtless with rolled up pants and sunglasses and the other without pants in a collared shirt, helmet and sunglasses. Another soldier stands behind the wing of the plane shirtless with most of his body covered by one of the men in front of him. Two of the soldiers stand with legs propped up on the wing to the right in collared s… more
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wounded Solider Being Lifted Into Airplane]

Description: Photograph of a wounded solider on a stretcher being lifted by four men into the open hatch of an airplane. Each man stands at a corner of the stretcher wearing long-sleeved collared shirts, long pants, boots and hats with flipped up brims.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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