The wreck of the Japanese transport ship Kinugawa Maru, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The ship was beached and then destroyed by US forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-3) of the Pacific War in the Second World War (1939-45). Photograph taken in November 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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