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[Island Encounters 2-0024]
[Island Encounters 2-0139]
New Guinea native adjusts the Victory Loan poster to a coconut palm at Lae.
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]
Farming Lesson for Natives
Native Children at Talafofo, Guam. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
These snapshots were taken on Guadalcanal in 1943 at Ironbottom Bay [See "more images" below for complete caption]
[Island Encounters 2-0179]
[Island Encounters 2-0182]
The color guard of the Samoan Fita Fita Guard stand in front of their barracks.
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]
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]
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.
Australian Maj. J.V. Mather pays a Solomon blue-black his weekly wage of five shillings for work as a stevedore on Guadalcanal. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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]
Saipanese questioned by U.S. Marines during combat
Ellice Island . . . Inspecting Laundry: P/Sgt. Hayes watches native girl doing his laundry.
Two young Islanders wait on table in a military mess. One serviceman pours out a dose of Quinine Sulfate
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]
SoPac natives bring their knives to Marines of the largest supply base in the SoPac [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.
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]
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