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...Japs made efforts (sometimes successful) to keep relations good. They gave natives the same medical treatment they gave their own men, established first-aid stations for bomb victims, paid for coconut trees they destroyed. And Jap enlisted men were prohibited from entering native homes. Said one Guam native: "High Jap officers would come in and eat with us. I liked Jap equality better. The Americans made us feel as if we were inferior...
Boxing is the favorite entertainment of the occupation forces on Guadalcanal. Every Saturday night U.S. servicemen, New Zealanders and woolly-haired natives choke the roads to the ringside, scramble for seats in trucks parked bumper to bumper. More than an hour before the first bout, every nearby coconut tree is loaded with spectators and standing room is hard to find...
...Marine platoon presented arms, the bugler played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...
...Betio is changed greatly. The tangled morass of coconut logs and bomb-pitted sand has been leveled. Orderly rows of tents have risen to shelter the marines, the sailors, the airmen and the Seabees who man this outpost...
...years before the war, Rabaul (pop. 8,000) dozed comfortably in the Pacific sun, its chief activities coconut culture and administration of the Australian-mandated Territory of New Guinea. Planters' bungalows stood among green lawns and lush gardens. Tree-shaded avenues curved past government buildings, warehouses, hotels, churches, the New South Wales Bank, the racecourse...