SNLF soldiers during the Kokoda track campaign, august 1942

Kokoda track

I-19 was a Japanese Type B1 submarine which damaged and destroyed several enemy ships during World War II while serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, with a single torpedo salvo, the submarine sank the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and the destroyer USS O'Brien, and damaged the battleship USS North Carolina.

Japanese submarine I-19

Japanese Photography Journalist of the Asahi Graph Magazine in New Guinea, 1942.