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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]
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]
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]
Bougainville. . . .Native Girl is Given Medical Treatment [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Sgt Allen R. Hamm [. . .] paints a mural for the last MarDiv comdr [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Three infant natives of Guadalcanal are baptized by Lieutenant William J. McCabe [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Navy Chaplain Joseph E. Wieber celebrates Mass for the Chamorros in their stockade here. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
The Payoff: Marine Gunner Powell carefully counts out the money for the line of native women. [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]
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]
The dancing and eating finished, the natives and Marines sit and talk. [See "more images" below for complete caption]