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

The color guard of the Samoan Fita Fita Guard stand in front of their barracks.

Local coastwatchers on guard at their post overlooking Noumea harbor receive a visit from a "liberty party" of sailors from the USS Enterprise.

Island mess cook peels potatos [sic]

Two young Islanders wait on table in a military mess. One serviceman pours out a dose of Quinine Sulfate

The war directed medical attention to several endemic Pacific diseases, especially yaws and malaria. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Navy nurses give a yaws injection to a Micronesian child. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Members of the Fijian 3rd Battalion, dressed in traditional dance costume, honor officers of the Allied forces with a kava (yaqona) ceremony. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Fais Islanders try out a new custom: saluting the American flag. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

On behalf of Solomon Islanders, Jacob Vouza of the Solomon Islandes Defence Force, and honorary Sergeant Major in the U.S. Marine Corps, presents a plaque of gratitude to the commander of U.S. forces on the island. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

An American Catholic priest, standing next to a makeshift altar set up on the bech to give a prayer service, presents a young Micronesian girl with a rosary.

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]