Pacific Wrecks - Col Frank B. Goettge, 1st Marine Division intelligence officer seated with a trunk of Japanese money captured in the vicinity of Lunga on Guadalcanal

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Col Frank B. Goettge, 1st Marine Division intelligence officer seated with a trunk of Japanese money captured in the vicinity of Lunga on Guadalcanal
On August 12, 1942 led the "Goettge Patrol" west of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal and remains listed as Missing In Action (MIA).
Credit: Thayer Soule Date: August 1942
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