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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]
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]
U.S. troops lead Kwajalein people along the beach for evacuation to nearby Enilapkan Island. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Natives of Saipan, ferreted out of the hills by Marines of the 2nd Regiment, are assisted unto [sic] a truck to be transported behind the front lines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
American Civil Affairs Officer makes friends by giving candy to children after the Marines' amphibious landing on the island.
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]
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]
Navy Chaplain Joseph E. Wieber celebrates Mass for the Chamorros in their stockade here. [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]