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Description Oblique view of Henderson Field looking north with Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel) in the background. At the left center is the "Pagoda" operations center of Cactus Air Force flyers through their first months of operations ashore. The circle in the center is the former Japanese dispersal area.
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Source U.S. National Archives photo 80-G-29536-413C in: Henry I. Shaw, Jr.: First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal. Marines in World War II Commemorative Series. Marine Corps Historical Center, Washington D.C., 1992
Author U.S. Navy

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current00:43, 4 January 2007Thumbnail for version as of 00:43, 4 January 2007520 × 263 (36 KB)Cla68 (talk | contribs)Aerial view of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, possibly taken from above the runway looking north sometime in September, 1942. The "Pagoda" is at left and Ironbottom Sound is at the top of the picture. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Guadalc

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