The Pacific in Wartime

Standing Cpl Zavani with Kimata - Piuniuna (???) loading rifle [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Col. Michael Currin, USMC (ret.)

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 first Christian service is held on Cape Gloucester since the Japanese imprisoned the resident missionary two years previously. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marine Corps

The native chief, Mok, looks astonished as he peers from the radio gunner's seat in a torpedo bomber [See "more images" below for complete caption]
PfC. R. Estes

The native-built chapel in an Allied cemetery is formally turned over to the Allied command at dedication ceremonies. "Island Encounters" photograph collection.
Sgt. M.E. Garber

The Payoff: Marine Gunner Powell carefully counts out the money for the line of native women. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Staff Sgt. H. Neil Gillespie

The war's new Islanders: Samoan marines pose with their rifles for American military photographers and movie makers. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marine Corps

This Melanesian construction worker, as much at home as a monkey on te framework of a warehouse for Marine Corps supplies at a South Pacific base, is proudest of his cap and his cross. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
John W. Saunders, USMC

Three infant natives of Guadalcanal are baptized by Lieutenant William J. McCabe [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Corporal Milton A. Ford

U.S. Marines with natives on Fais Island, Ulithi Atoll in the Carolines. Father Martin saying Mass.
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Vangunu Island, New Georgia natives at Protestant Church services. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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William H. Dorsey, an agricultural expert of the Office of Economic Welfare, shows two Solomon Island natives the first ear of corn on a recent planting. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Staff Sgt. Mundell