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Three Marines and a Sea Bee seal international good-will with these natives of Guadalcanal [See "more images" below for complete caption]

At Halavo Seaplane Base, Islanders teach black American Seabees (in shirts) how to make thatch for shading cooler barracks.

Three Seabees (including two black Americans) barter with local traders for fruit, betel nut, walking sticks, and grass skirts

Pfc. Wm. F. Fey (sitting right) finds out that the natives of Guadalcanal know all about checkers. He was soundly whipped by this native, Matthew Lova. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Alex Kwaisufu, a private in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps, observes Lt. Schuman of New York filling out an absentee voting ballot. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Marine walks his guard post on the beach. Instead of the bowing, the nativves all now salute the Marines with a t ypical "G.I. flash." [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Members of Donald Kennedy's coastwatching unit train with rifles at their base.

Shell craters and foxholes dot Kakambona beach--evidence of the U.S. bombardment the day before that drove Japanese from the area. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Natives are recruited at Kirakira, San Cristobal Is., for the Native Labor Corps on Guadalcanal [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Major C. V. Widdy, chief manager for Levers Pacific Plantations before the war, gives a potential labor corps recruit a cursory medical examination

Workers in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps were paid one shilling (16 cents) a day, but often received far more in food, clothing, and equipment giben away by American troops. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Australian Maj. J.V. Mather pays a Solomon blue-black his weekly wage of five shillings for work as a stevedore on Guadalcanal. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Handling and stowage of gasoline on Guadalcanal. Natives unloading drums from barge.

Natives assist Marines by loading five-gallon water tins in their outrigger canoes and pushing them through shallow water over a coral reef [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Solomon Islands Labour Corps and Seabees work on Guadalcanal airfield, 1943

Guadacanal engineering activity [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Ellice Island . . . Inspecting Laundry: P/Sgt. Hayes watches native girl doing his laundry.

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

First of its kind to land in this area, a U.S. Navy "Duck" seaplane fascinates village children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Captain William M. Quigley, USN, Commander of the Naval Bases in the Solomons, drives a spike into one of the few wooden ties on the line [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Guadalcanal: Natives aid Marine Communicators in the construction of a telephone pole line. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Navy photographer explains an aerial camera to an interested Islander.

Native children receiving medical attention from doctors at Solomon Is.