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New York Bureau
Solomons Exodus
Solomons: Hundreds of green islands natives are shown being removed on landing craft to safer zones pending the complete occupation of the Solomons objective. The natives, ranging in ages from wrinkled-faced great-grand-fathers to babes in arms, present a strange scene of aboriginal domesticity to the war craft, about which they gathered.
Credit (U.S. Navy official photo from ACME)