The Pacific in Wartime

A ROSARY FOR EACH: Even as their ancestors treasured the amulets about their necks, the natives eagerly accept rosaries brought them by Father Weehan.
Fitzgerald

Islanders and sailors from the USS Nicholas exchange grass skirts for cigarettes. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Jungle Trading Post: Cpl. Robert A. Weeks a former interior decorator the painter who now uses his talent to camouflage Leathneck [sic] mechanized equipment. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Tech. Sgt. M.E. Moran

Lt. Geo A. Rollinsk, supply officer of 193 Inf. dickers with three natives with canes, grass skirts, et cetera, to sell.
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Many Islanders quickly became aware of the trade potential of their traditional arts.
U.S. Army Signal Corps

MARINE MODEL. . .Bedecked, withh five-and-ten jewelry, grass skirt, walking-cane and with a nickel cigar in his mouth, this Marine artillery-man shows the natives of this South Pacific Island what a Hollywood native looks like. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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Marines Bargaining with Natives [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Cpl. D.L. Kettler

Members of the Fijian 3rd Battalion, dressed in traditional dance costume, honor officers of the Allied forces with a kava (yaqona) ceremony. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Natives of Solomon Island Posing with Seabees from 14th Naval Battalion, Guadalcanal, 1943
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Navy nurses give a yaws injection to a Micronesian child. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Sgt Allen R. Hamm [. . .] paints a mural for the last MarDiv comdr [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Gambill

Three Seabees (including two black Americans) barter with local traders for fruit, betel nut, walking sticks, and grass skirts
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