File:SBD and F4Us at Bougainville in December 1943.jpg

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Description The fighter strip at Torokina was hacked out of the Bougainville jungle. This December 1943 view shows a lineup of U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsairs and a Douglas SBD Dauntless, which is completing its landing rollout past a grading machine still working to finish the new landing field.
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Source Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph 74672 in A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 (PCN 19000307700), p. 6.
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