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Summary

MEN WHO TOOK TULAGI--for the first time. Officers and petty officers of the 3d Kure Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) which seized Tulagi and Gavutu in May 1942. WO Tsurusaburo Shigeta's information platoon, 3rd Company, photographed 17 February 1942 at Kure barracks, Kure, Japan.

First row, left to right: PO3c Tokio Ishihara (or Ishiwara), PO3c Kazuo Kano, PO3c Yoshiaki Murakami, PO1c Katsuo Takano, WOo Tsurusaburo Shigeta, Sp. Lt (jg) Kakichi Yoshimoto (commander, 3rd Company, Kure 3rd SNLF), WO Takeo Ikeda, PO3c Toyosaku Saito, PO3c Shigeo Kanbara, PO3c Goro Hayashi, PO3c Masajiro Yoshimura. Source: Jersey, Stanley, Hell's Islands, The Untold Story of Guadalcanal, Texas A&M University Press, 2008, p. 81.

The majority of those in this photo subsequently died defending Tulagi against U.S. Marines in August, 1942. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Guadalcanal/USMC-M-Guadalcanal-1.html

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  1. It was published before 1 January 1957.
  2. It was photographed before 1 January 1947.
It is also in the public domain in the United States because its copyright in Japan expired by 1970 and was not restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
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