Keywords: Bomb strike on Choiseul Island in 1944.jpg Smoke rises from the site of an explosion following a bomb drop on a hill behind Choiseul Bay during an attack on a Japanese transit base at Choiseul Bay Choiseul Lauru Island Solomon Islands The flight was guided by Sub-Lieutenant Alexander Nicol Anton Waddell Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve RANVR who had been a coastwatcher on the island since October 1942 P02392 004 1944-02-18 Australian armed forces Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia Douglas SBD Dauntless Cactus Air Force Pacific War in February 1944 Choiseul Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Campaign |