Guadalcanal - Walking a Battlefield
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Hill 2, Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge. A good depiction of the thick jungle and the channeling features.

This is a 1944 photo when the area was built up as a rear base.

 

Tinian scrapheap 1946. Those are all B-29's that were battle damaged and made it back, or which were damaged on the island in accidents. So how much money is in that pile?

 

 

 

Canadian troops attend a Thanksgiving Mass in the bombed-out Cambrai Cathedral, France, in October 1918.

 

OUT GOING ARTILLERY ROUND SHOT THE TAIL OFF FRIENDLY PLANE BY AN AWFUL ACCIDENT. ALL PERISHED.

 

A Japanese Kamikaze hit on the hardened and re-enforced surface of the HMS Sussex leaving only an imprint.