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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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Public domain This photographic image was published before December 31st 1956, or photographed before 1946 and not published for 10 years thereafter, under jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. Thus this photographic image is considered to be public domain according to article 23 of old copyright law of Japan and article 2 of supplemental provision of copyright law of Japan.
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