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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]
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.
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
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
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]
Natives of a South Pacific island join a Navy labor battalion aas workers and guides. Their first meal aboard ship.
Natives of a South Pacific island join a navy labor battalion as workers and guides. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Native nurses (chamorros [sic]) and Japanese medical staff at Agana, Guam. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Women and children watch as men from their village leave for labor corps work with the allies on Guadalcanal.
Four Fais men sort newly acquired American money with advice from U.S. Marines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]