File:Tractor pulls SBD Dautless on Espiritu Santo c1942.jpg

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A tractor pulls a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless off a makeshift dock and onto the beach on Espiritu Santo island in 1942.

  • Note the LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) beached in the foreground.
  • In colonial New Hebrides (present day Vanuatu) during the Solomon Islands Campaign of WWII.
Date circa 1942
date QS:P,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.785
Author U.S. Navy

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