The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean. 1942-10. Bursts of anti aircraft above the burning US Navy aircraft carrier Hornet after she was attacked and badly damaged by Japanese dive bombers and torpedo bombers. Later the carrier had to be sunk.
Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean. 1942-10. The US Navy aircraft carrier Hornet under Japanese air attack during the Santa Cruz naval air action off the Solomons. Note the Japanese dive bomber aircraft a
GUADALCANAL, BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE. 1942-08-08. MITSUBISHI G4M (BETTY) TORPEDO BOMBERS OF THE JAPANESE NAVAL AIR FORCE COME IN VERY LOW THROUGH HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT FIRE TO ATTACK US TRA
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 1942-09-15. Smoke billowing from the US aircraft carrier Wasp after she was struck by Japanese torpedoes. The carrier was sunk by her own crew after unsuccessful attemps
Solomon Islands. August 1942. Two Japanese torpedo bombers attacking allied warships fly past a US Navy destroyer (probably USS Selfridge) at Savo. (Donor M. Williams)
GUADALCANAL, BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE. 1942-08-08. THE AMERICAN TRANSPORT GEORGE F ELLIOTT ON FIRE AFTER A JAPANESE AIRCRAFT HAD CRASHED INTO HER SUPERSTRUCTURE IN THE COURSE OF AN ATTACK
THE GERMAN RAIDER "KOMET" WHICH OPERATED WITH SUCCESS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN (WHERE SHE SANK ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPPING AND SHELLED THE PHOSPHATE LOADING PLANT AT NAURU), AND IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE G
