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New Guinea native adjusts the Victory Loan poster to a coconut palm at Lae.

Emil - on board the lugger. Local Island. N. Guinea

Mae, Kevin, Joan, & Emil in rubber boat (RAAF). Moresby, 43

Crash Boats at Local Island. N.G. '43

R.A.N. at Local Island - on picnic day. N.G. '43

Lugger in Moresby harbor. N.G. '43

Emergency rubber boat (air force). Mac, Kevin, Joan & Emil. N.G. '43

Lugger sailing amongst coral strands near Local Island. N.G. '43

RAAF. Crash boat - Moresby Harbour. '43

Amphibian Jeep & Americans. N.G. '43

Emil chatting with Yank. The belly tank outrigger was made by the Americans. N.g.

Amphibian Jeep - Local Island. '43

War Lahatoi - near Lae Lae. N. Guinea '43

Battle scene, coastal area

[Island Encounters 2-0182]

Craft made from fighter belly tanks with outboard motor. N.Guinea

En route to Local Island for picnic with 45 Air Group. (Emil Sodestian, [illegible], Marg McCanley, Joan Hammond, Kevin Carr & Ivor the American (N. Yorks leading architect) N Guinea

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]

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.

Florida Island. . . .Native boys barter bananas for American tobacco with Marines at a Southwest Pacific Island

[Island Encounters 2-0176]

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]