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Photograph shows Sgt. A. Junkers of McCombe, Miss. and Sgt. C.H. Catchen of Little Rock, Ark. giving cigarettes to native scouts.

Along with photographs, servicemen also represented thier image of Islanders in paintings and drawings. [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]

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

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]

P-6 Tupolie, A Samoan Marine poses with a fishing spear while Marine Corps Public Relations men take pictures. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Part of unit of 23 Malaita men attached to 1st Fiji Guerrillas return from patrol in New Georgia, 1943. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

One of the first Chamorros to get a glimpe of his homeland since the Japanese occupied Guam is F.C. Mesa, STic [sic], USN, who flew as an observer in a dive-bombing attack on the island early in July. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Captain Donald Kennedy, District Officer on veranda of Markham Plantation House, Segi Point, New Georgia

The native chief, Mok, looks astonished as he peers from the radio gunner's seat in a torpedo bomber [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

With two native policemen, Yawa and Bolgi, warriors feared by the Japanese.

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]

61 year old Chamorro woman on Saipan looks over some of the photographs being displayed by T/Sgt. Don Brown [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]

Just one month before being killed by a burst of machine gun fire on a small island off Okinawa, famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle enjoys a happy moment with local children.

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]

Catholic missionaries land on the docks on Guadalcanal after rescue by U.S. Marines and Sailors from one of the Solomon Islands. [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

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]

Dr. O'Brien treating natives at Ong Tong, Java