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Navy Medical officers treating natives on New Georgia Is. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Vangunu Island, New Georgia natives at Protestant Church services. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Native Guides for Marine Patrol Which Scouted Behind Jap Lines. [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]
Natives of a South Pacific island join a Navy labor battalion aas workers and guides. Their first meal aboard ship.
The Payoff: Marine Gunner Powell carefully counts out the money for the line of native women. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Natives of a South Pacific island join a navy labor battalion as workers and guides. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Women and children watch as men from their village leave for labor corps work with the allies on Guadalcanal.
The war directed medical attention to several endemic Pacific diseases, especially yaws and malaria. [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]
Bougainville. . . .Native Girl is Given Medical Treatment [See "more images" below for complete caption]