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Carte des Iles Mulgrave (Archipel des Iles Marshall); Carte des Iles Charlotte (Archipel des Iles Gilbert)

Carte des Iles Bonham (Archipel des Iles Marshall)

Vue des Iles Radak sous l'aspect du Vaquois (Pandanua odoralissimua)

Natives of Eniwetak, Marshall Islands, D-Day

Armes et ustensiles des iles Radak

Ventriloquist and his two charges entertain Marshall Islanders as part of a visit by Marine entertainers.

Debarquement a travers les Recifs de l'Isle Romanzoff

U.S. troops lead Kwajalein people along the beach for evacuation to nearby Enilapkan Island. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Marine and Navy vehicles on this native island provide a virtual Utopia for the native children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Vue des Iles Radak avec les Palmiers de Cocos

Vue dans les Iles Radak

Iles Carolines; Interieur d' un maison l'ile Radak

Archipel des Carolines; Vue de l' Ile Radak

Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Gift-giving druing the war flowed two ways, and many Islanders recall the presents they gave to Allied and Japanese servicemen. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

In return, "in the name of Admiral Nimitz," the Naval officeres present Islanders with a pile of military supplies including cigarettes, cigars, spools of thread, knives, and caramel candy.

Hundreds of Marshallese natives, representing many atolls in these islands, staged an impressive ceremony on 4th of July, honoring American independence and their own recent freedom from the Japanese. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

Vue dans les Iles Radak

Iles Radak