The Pacific in Wartime

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A 61 year old Chamorro woman on Saipan looks over some of the photographs being displayed by T/Sgt. Don Brown [See "more images" below for complete caption]
S/Sgt. R.E. Olund, U.S. Marine Corps

Four Fais men sort newly acquired American money with advice from U.S. Marines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Gift-giving druing the war flowed two ways, and many Islanders recall the presents they gave to Allied and Japanese servicemen. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

In return, "in the name of Admiral Nimitz," the Naval officeres present Islanders with a pile of military supplies including cigarettes, cigars, spools of thread, knives, and caramel candy.
U.S. Navy

Island images of military outsiders were shaped by American films and magazines that flooded the Pacific during the war. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Native women wash clothes in a small crater on Guam.
Pfc. F.A. Cannistraci [text difficult to read; see "more images" below]

The dancing and eating finished, the natives and Marines sit and talk. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Cpl. Kettler (U.S. Marine Corps)

The films which circulated in great numbers during the war introduced many Islanders to new and more graphic images of Western culture.[See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Tongans sail out to the USS Enterprise to sell or trade beads, shells, grass skirts, and mats to the sailors.
U.S. Navy