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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

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

This pix [sic] shows how native labor helped the Marines in building ford's [sic] over streams such as shown here. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Howard

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Three Seabees (including two black Americans) barter with local traders for fruit, betel nut, walking sticks, and grass skirts
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Tongans sail out to the USS Enterprise to sell or trade beads, shells, grass skirts, and mats to the sailors.
U.S. Navy

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