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At Halavo Seaplane Base, Islanders teach black American Seabees (in shirts) how to make thatch for shading cooler barracks.

Four Fais men sort newly acquired American money with advice from U.S. Marines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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

Local coastwatchers on guard at their post overlooking Noumea harbor receive a visit from a "liberty party" of sailors from the USS Enterprise.

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]

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

Handling and stowage of gasoline on Guadalcanal. Natives unloading drums from barge.

Solomon Islands Labour Corps and Seabees work on Guadalcanal airfield, 1943

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

Two young Islanders wait on table in a military mess. One serviceman pours out a dose of Quinine Sulfate

Two Islanders use a new tool as they fill ditches in a manioc garden to control mosquitoes. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

First of its kind to land in this area, a U.S. Navy "Duck" seaplane fascinates village children. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Navy photographer explains an aerial camera to an interested Islander.

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

The war directed medical attention to several endemic Pacific diseases, especially yaws and malaria. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Navy nurses give a yaws injection to a Micronesian child. [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]

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

Navy Medical officers treating natives on New Georgia Is. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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.

Naptali Bea (left) and Ben Avualvulu (right) enjoy "C" ration biscuits given to them by U.S. troops. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Islanders and sailors from the USS Nicholas exchange grass skirts for cigarettes. [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]