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Creating Siapo: American Samoa 1967
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Island mess cook peels potatos [sic]
Two Islanders use a new tool as they fill ditches in a manioc garden to control mosquitoes. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
SoPac natives bring their knives to Marines of the largest supply base in the SoPac [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]
P-6 Tupolie, A Samoan Marine poses with a fishing spear while Marine Corps Public Relations men take pictures. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Native operators at the Atlanta telephone exchange office, Guam, Marianas.
Many Islanders also learned to use more complex tools. Two New Caledonians use a tractor to move cargo about the Noumea docks.
Navy photographer explains an aerial camera to an interested Islander.
New public health measures were developed during the war to reduce massive troop casualties from malaria. [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]
Two native girls work in one of the local truck gardens on Peleliu. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Seebees from 34th Naval Construction Battalion Studying Carpentry
Apprentice: This little Melanesian boy helps his elders build a warehouse for U.S. Marines at a SoPac base.
Natives tend graves at Navy and Marine Cemetery, No. 1, Tulagi
Members of the Fijian 3rd Battalion, dressed in traditional dance costume, honor officers of the Allied forces with a kava (yaqona) ceremony. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Easter Services at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, with Malaita Natives participating. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
The war's new Islanders: Samoan marines pose with their rifles for American military photographers and movie makers. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Sgt. Harry Wickham, BSIDF, Major M.S. Currin and two natives in vicinity of Tusamine (?) [See "more images" below for complete caption]
