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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]

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.

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]

Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [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]

The native chief, Mok, looks astonished as he peers from the radio gunner's seat in a torpedo bomber [See "more images" below for complete caption]

U.S. Marines with natives on Fais Island, Ulithi Atoll in the Carolines. Father Martin saying Mass.

Navy Chaplain Joseph E. Wieber celebrates Mass for the Chamorros in their stockade here. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Marine and Navy vehicles on this native island provide a virtual Utopia for the native children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]