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Keywords: TulagiJapanese1942.gif 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 PD-Japan-oldphoto Group photographs Invasion of Tulagi May 1942 Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces People of the Imperial Japanese Navy Group portraits
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