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Four Fais men sort newly acquired American money with advice from U.S. Marines. [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.

The color guard of the Samoan Fita Fita Guard stand in front of their barracks.

[Island Encounters 2-0017]

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

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]

Native police boy draws a map on the ground showing the position of enemy forces. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Members of Donald Kennedy's coastwatching unit train with rifles at their base.

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]

[Island Encounters 2-0024]

Shell craters and foxholes dot Kakambona beach--evidence of the U.S. bombardment the day before that drove Japanese from the area. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

U.S. troops lead Kwajalein people along the beach for evacuation to nearby Enilapkan Island. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Caught in the tides of battle, Papuans who had lived under Japanese occupation for two years are here picked up and transported to Allied positions by the U.S. 158th infantry.

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]

Evacuation of natives of Green Island, of New Ireland, to a place of safety is shown in this series of pictures. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

[Island Encounters 2-0030]

Natives of Saipan, ferreted out of the hills by Marines of the 2nd Regiment, are assisted unto [sic] a truck to be transported behind the front lines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Native women wash clothes in a small crater on Guam.

Native woman being brought i from hills, where she was hiding from the Japs, to an American hospital for treatment, she is suffering from malnutrition.

Natives are recruited at Kirakira, San Cristobal Is., for the Native Labor Corps on Guadalcanal [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Major C. V. Widdy, chief manager for Levers Pacific Plantations before the war, gives a potential labor corps recruit a cursory medical examination

Workers in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps were paid one shilling (16 cents) a day, but often received far more in food, clothing, and equipment giben away by American troops. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [See "more images" below for complete caption]