LCVP landing craft circling off Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands while awaiting orders, 1 Nov 1943; note 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; photographed from aboard APA-13 USS American Legion

Solomon Islands invasion

Lt.Gen. Thomas Holcomb (left front), Col. Merritt Edson (right rear), and Maj.Gen. Alexander Vandegrift touring Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Nov 1942

On Guadalcanal

Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Nebraska, attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, uses a destroyed Japanese tank for an altar as he holds services for the dead. Saipan, 24 June 1944.