The Pacific in Wartime

Islanders rescue a U.S. Navy pilot after he made an emergency landing with his seaplane in their lagoon. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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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

Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Heiberger

Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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Major Herbert R. Nusbaum, Commanding swears [sic] in Tupelu and three others.
Cpl. Robert W. Skelton

Marine and Navy vehicles on this native island provide a virtual Utopia for the native children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
1st Lt. Archie Brown (U.S. Marine Corps)

Marine monkey-shines. The natives carry the food to their huts in these straw baskets. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kettler

Marine Sergeant Laurence Brown installs the bell in the new chapel built by natives for Marines . . . [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Barnett (U.S. Marine Corps)

Marines Bargaining with Natives [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Cpl. D.L. Kettler

Marines give water to civilian prisoners, (men).
U.S. Marine Corps

Members of the Solomon Islands Labour Corps and Allied servicemen dedicate a memorial chapel constructed by the laborers as a gift for the United States forces. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marine Corps

Native Gilbertese work battalion marches off to work for Marines on Tarawa.
Burns