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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]

Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [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]

Saipanese questioned by U.S. Marines during combat

William H. Dorsey, an agricultural expert of the Office of Economic Welfare, shows two Solomon Island natives the first ear of corn on a recent planting. [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]

Natives tend graves at Navy and Marine Cemetery, No. 1, Tulagi

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

Guadalcanal supplies: unloading beer at rations dump

[Obliterated]ere is the heavy equipment yard [obliterated]t the largest Marine supply base in [obliterated]he South Pacific. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Two Islanders use a new tool as they fill ditches in a manioc garden to control mosquitoes. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Many Islanders also learned to use more complex tools. Two New Caledonians use a tractor to move cargo about the Noumea docks.

SoPac natives bring their knives to Marines of the largest supply base in the SoPac [See "more images" below for complete caption]

The war introduced various new means of transport that impressed many islanders. Tank landing ships come ashore on a small Pacific atoll.

Natives living near Lake Sentani, NG, row out to "surrender" to Buffaloes.

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]

Gloucester natives examine first U.S. Plane on airport

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]