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[Island Encounters 2-0179]

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]

Heads high, these native troopers march as proudly as their white allies at Southwest Pacific base. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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

[Island Encounters 2-0176]

Marine monkey-shines. The natives carry the food to their huts in these straw baskets. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

U.S. Marine wearing a Japanese sword and canteen, with three members of the native police force on Guadalcanal

Native police boy draws a map on the ground showing the position of enemy forces. [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

Native children receiving medical attention from doctors at Solomon Is.

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

American Civil Affairs Officer makes friends by giving candy to children after the Marines' amphibious landing on the island.

Naptali Bea (left) and Ben Avualvulu (right) enjoy "C" ration biscuits given to them by U.S. troops. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Natives of a South Pacific island join a Navy labor battalion aas workers and guides. Their first meal aboard ship.

Natives of Green Island line up behind their chief (right) and catechist at the dedication of a chapel and cemetery. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

This Melanesian construction worker, as much at home as a monkey on te framework of a warehouse for Marine Corps supplies at a South Pacific base, is proudest of his cap and his cross. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

[Island Encounters 2-0178]

Women and children watch as men from their village leave for labor corps work with the allies on Guadalcanal.

Navy nurses give a yaws injection to a Micronesian child. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Tongans sail out to the USS Enterprise to sell or trade beads, shells, grass skirts, and mats to the sailors.

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]

An American Catholic priest, standing next to a makeshift altar set up on the bech to give a prayer service, presents a young Micronesian girl with a rosary.