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

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]

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.

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]

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]

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

Saipanese questioned by U.S. Marines during combat

William H. Dorsey, an agricultural expert of the Office of Economic Welfare, shows two Solomon Island natives the first ear of corn on a recent planting. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Natives tend graves at Navy and Marine Cemetery, No. 1, Tulagi

Guadalcanal supplies: unloading beer at rations dump

Two Islanders use a new tool as they fill ditches in a manioc garden to control mosquitoes. [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.

Natives living near Lake Sentani, NG, row out to "surrender" to Buffaloes.

After the Americans recaptured the island, a Pharmacists Mate treats the infected hand of a young Chamorro girl in a Navy dispensary constructed of local material

Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

New public health measures were developed during the war to reduce massive troop casualties from malaria. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

American Civil Affairs Officer makes friends by giving candy to children after the Marines' amphibious landing on the island.

Gift-giving druing the war flowed two ways, and many Islanders recall the presents they gave to Allied and Japanese servicemen. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

In return, "in the name of Admiral Nimitz," the Naval officeres present Islanders with a pile of military supplies including cigarettes, cigars, spools of thread, knives, and caramel candy.

Many Islanders quickly became aware of the trade potential of their traditional arts.

Islanders also found new markets for human skulls that were, in many areas, part of traditional religious practices. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

Hundreds of Marshallese natives, representing many atolls in these islands, staged an impressive ceremony on 4th of July, honoring American independence and their own recent freedom from the Japanese. [See "more images" below for complete caption]