SOLOMON ISLANDS-CHINESE AID-BROADBAND NETWORK

SOLOMON ISLANDS-CHINESE AID-BROADBAND NETWORK

(240709) -- HONIARA, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on June 27, 2024 shows a China-assisted telecommunication tower of Solomon Islands' National Broadband Network Project, in Sali village of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. China's assistance to the Solomon Islands' National Broadband Network Project, jointly implemented by China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., is a landmark project for cooperation between the two countries. The project plans to construct 161 3G/4G wireless communication base stations on 35 major islands in the Solomon Islands' nine provinces. The construction, to last for three years, started on Aug. 28, 2023, with the first telecommunication tower launched on March 22 in Sali village. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese aid to Solomon Islands' broadband network improves infrastructure, education " Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Jianhua)

U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal

U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal

U.S. Marines on the island of Guadalcanal during the campaign to take the strategically placed island. Allied forces landed on 7 August 1942, and the island was cleared of Japanese forces by 9 February 1943 Date: 1942 - 1943

Guadalcanal Diary film (1943)

Guadalcanal Diary film (1943)

Preston Foster & Richard Jaeckel Characters: Father Donnelly & Pvt. Johnny ('Chicken') Anderson Film: Guadalcanal Diary (1945) Director: Lewis Seiler 27 October 1943 Date: 27-Oct-1943

Battle of Guadalcanal survivor shows photo as young WWII soldier

Battle of Guadalcanal survivor shows photo as young WWII soldier

Sadao Suzuki, a survivor of the 1942-1943 Battle of Guadalcanal in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, shows his photo as a young Imperial Japanese Army soldier on Feb. 4, 2015, at his home in Asahikawa in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Big catch flag returned to family 73 yrs later

Big catch flag returned to family 73 yrs later

Sayoko Sasaki (2nd from R), eldest daughter of a crew member of a fishing boat that sank in the Pacific during World War II, and JoEllen Gorg (L), principal officer at the U.S. Consulate in Sapporo, pose for photos in the Miyagi prefectural town of Minamisanriku in northeastern Japan on July 27, 2015, along with a returned big catch flag. The fishing boat Tenyo Maru was sunk near the Solomon Islands in 1942 while it was engaged in the Battle of Guadalcanal and the flag was returned to families of the crew. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

94-year-old Japanese war veteran recalls WWII Guadalcanal Battle

94-year-old Japanese war veteran recalls WWII Guadalcanal Battle

Chosei Hashimoto, a 94-year-old former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, recounts the fierce battle he experienced on the south Pacific island of Guadalcanal during World War II in an interview with Kyodo News in Nagoya, central Japan, on Feb. 22, 2015. He expressed his belief that most Japanese wish to uphold the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo