Captured German artillery Major General Johannes Schräpler sitting in a US military police jeep, flanked by armed guards.

Prized POW

American combat engineers are about to set boxes of TNT explosives to detonate a damaged German Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf.G  tank, to prevent from recapturing it, in anticipation of a German counter-attack.

Combat engineers at work

American senior officers review a formation of soldiers on board a naval vessel, sent to the Solomon Islands from New Caledonia to augment the Marines there.