War in the Pacific


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 2-0147	Guadalcanal natives load mail for United States Marines inland. [See "more images" below for complete caption] Pfc Edward Merva 2-0148	Two native girls work in one of the local truck gardens on Peleliu. [See "more images" below for complete caption] Moeller 2-0149

Native Gilbertese work battalion marches off to work for Marines on Tarawa. Burns 2-0150	Captain Moy of the Australian Army is shown here employing the natives of Bougainville to work for the Marines. [See "more images" below for complete caption] Pfc. Phil Scheer 2-0151	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 2-0152

Four Marines lie on their stretchers waiting to be carried to the beach (by) natives who brought them down from the scene of battle. [See "more images" below for complete caption] Sgt. Brenner 2-0153	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 2-0154	Natives washing a Navy jeep at Port Moresby, 1943 Unknown 2-0155

Natives of a South Pacific island join a navy labor battalion as workers and guides. [See "more images" below for complete caption] Unknown 2-0156	With two native policemen, Yawa and Bolgi, warriors feared by the Japanese. Unknown 2-0157	Natives of Solomon Island Posing with Seabees from 14th Naval Battalion, Guadalcanal, 1943 Unknown 2-0158