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These snapshots were taken on Guadalcanal in 1943 at Ironbottom Bay [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Two young Islanders wait on table in a military mess. One serviceman pours out a dose of Quinine Sulfate
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]
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]
Navy Medical officers treating natives on New Georgia Is. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Native of Beaufort Bay, Guadalcanal, who lost his hand in an explosion [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Women and children watch as men from their village leave for labor corps work with the allies on Guadalcanal.
The war directed medical attention to several endemic Pacific diseases, especially yaws and malaria. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Jungle Trading Post: Cpl. Robert A. Weeks a former interior decorator the painter who now uses his talent to camouflage Leathneck [sic] mechanized equipment. [See "more images" below for complete caption]