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[Obliterated]ere is the heavy equipment yard [obliterated]t the largest Marine supply base in [obliterated]he South Pacific. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Three Marines and a Sea Bee seal international good-will with these natives of Guadalcanal [See "more images" below for complete caption]

THE SUPPLY LINE TAKES TO THE HILLS: A raider battalion, specially trained group of Marines, hikes over rugged terrain during recent operations on Guadalcanal. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

Saipanese questioned by U.S. Marines during combat

Ellice Island . . . Inspecting Laundry: P/Sgt. Hayes watches native girl doing his laundry.

SoPac natives bring their knives to Marines of the largest supply base in the SoPac [See "more images" below for complete caption]

The war introduced various new means of transport that impressed many islanders. Tank landing ships come ashore on a small Pacific atoll.

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]

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]

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

Cape Gloucester. . . . . . .Filial Devotion Kalingi Way [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Captain Moy of the Australian Army is shown here employing the natives of Bougainville to work for the Marines. [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]

This little character of Malaita Island in the South Solomons greeted a group of visiting Marines recently. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

U.S. Marine Corps major is given information by a native of Woleai (Micronesia) [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

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]

U.S. Marine wearing a Japanese sword and canteen, with three members of the native police force on Guadalcanal

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]

Catholic missionaries land on the docks on Guadalcanal after rescue by U.S. Marines and Sailors from one of the Solomon Islands. [See "more images" below for complete caption]