U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, on Bougainville Island November 1943

1943

Marines from 3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, of the United States Marine Corps negotiate a deep mud route along the Numa Numa Trail to advance on positions and units of the Imperial Japanese Army's Seventeenth Army during the Bougainville campaign on the Solomon Islands circa late November 1943 at Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands.