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80-G-K-383 Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942

Photo #: 80-G-K-383 Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942
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Title: Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942
Description: Largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named Betty), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-K-383
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