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Natives assist Marines by loading five-gallon water tins in their outrigger canoes and pushing them through shallow water over a coral reef [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
First of its kind to land in this area, a U.S. Navy "Duck" seaplane fascinates village children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Captain William M. Quigley, USN, Commander of the Naval Bases in the Solomons, drives a spike into one of the few wooden ties on the line [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Guadalcanal: Natives aid Marine Communicators in the construction of a telephone pole line. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Navy Medical officers treating natives on New Georgia Is. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Islanders and sailors from the USS Nicholas exchange grass skirts for cigarettes. [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]
Members of the Solomon Islands Labour Corps and Allied servicemen dedicate a memorial chapel constructed by the laborers as a gift for the United States forces. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Marines wading up the Tenaru River led by native guides before the Japs were driven from Guadalcanal. [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]
Lt. Geo A. Rollinsk, supply officer of 193 Inf. dickers with three natives with canes, grass skirts, et cetera, to sell.
The Payoff: Marine Gunner Powell carefully counts out the money for the line of native women. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
This pix [sic] shows how native labor helped the Marines in building ford's [sic] over streams such as shown here. [See "more images" below for complete caption]