A Piper J-3 Cub flies low over the ground to pick up a message via field panel on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 23 February 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A Piper J-3 Cub (a.k.a. L-4) flies low over the ground of Guadalcanal to pick up a message via field panel. "Artillery reconn.[reconnaissance] plane from the 40th Div. flying over a field panel station to pick up a message. 2-23-44." Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 23 February 1944

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02/23/1944
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography: 
Guadalcanal
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-9.533
Longitude: 
160.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Airplanes--American--Guadalcanal