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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]
Captain Donald Kennedy, District Officer on veranda of Markham Plantation House, Segi Point, New Georgia
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]
Florida Island. . . .Native boys barter bananas for American tobacco with Marines at a Southwest Pacific Island
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]
At Halavo Seaplane Base, Islanders teach black American Seabees (in shirts) how to make thatch for shading cooler barracks.
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]
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]
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]
Marine walks his guard post on the beach. Instead of the bowing, the nativves all now salute the Marines with a t ypical "G.I. flash." [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Just one month before being killed by a burst of machine gun fire on a small island off Okinawa, famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle enjoys a happy moment with local children.
Native police boy draws a map on the ground showing the position of enemy forces. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Local coastwatchers on guard at their post overlooking Noumea harbor receive a visit from a "liberty party" of sailors from the USS Enterprise.
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]