The Pacific in Wartime

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A native of a South Pacific island adopts the G.I.'s most popular mode of travel, hitch-hiking. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
McElroy (U.S. Marine Corps)

A Navy photographer explains an aerial camera to an interested Islander.
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A U.S. Marine wearing a Japanese sword and canteen, with three members of the native police force on Guadalcanal
U.S. Marine Corps

A.W. Fitch at Guadalcanal
ComAirSoPac

Alex Kwaisufu, a private in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps, observes Lt. Schuman of New York filling out an absentee voting ballot. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Apprentice: This little Melanesian boy helps his elders build a warehouse for U.S. Marines at a SoPac base.
Saunders (U.S. Marine Corps)

At Halavo Seaplane Base, Islanders teach black American Seabees (in shirts) how to make thatch for shading cooler barracks.
U.S. Navy

Australian Maj. J.V. Mather pays a Solomon blue-black his weekly wage of five shillings for work as a stevedore on Guadalcanal. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Howard, U.S. Marine Corps

Captain Donald Kennedy, District Officer on veranda of Markham Plantation House, Segi Point, New Georgia
Col. Michael Currin, USMC (ret.)

Captain William M. Quigley, USN, Commander of the Naval Bases in the Solomons, drives a spike into one of the few wooden ties on the line [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marine Corps

Catholic missionaries land on the docks on Guadalcanal after rescue by U.S. Marines and Sailors from one of the Solomon Islands. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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