South Pacific

Life at an American base on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, 1944. Just like the musical...

The American base on the atholl. Source

Servicemen chatting. Source

Ground crew working on a bomber. Source

Servicemen in front of a photo processing lab. Source

A view of the airstrip. Source

A plane taking off from the airstrip. Source

Servicemen gathering lumber. Source

Drinks in the officer's club. Source

Servicemen getting medals at an airstrip ceremony. Source

Servicemen in the library hut. Source

The island barbershop. Source

Sailors talk to local women. Source

Troops playing softball. Source

Cranes at work on the base. Source

Soldiers working on the makeshift harbour. Source

Servicewomen and a plane. Source

A makeshift shower (good for washing men out of your hair). Source

Native women giggling as they perform a dance. Source

Servicemen and women on a boat ride. Source

Natives carrying boxes at the base. Source

Local women being trained as nurses. Source

Native men ironing clothes. Source

A military cook. Source

Native people playing a game. Source

A soldier looking at his collection of shells. Source

A guard on duty (somehow I doubt that sign worked that well...). Source

A seabee playing the trumpet in an impromptu concert. Source

Soldiers in a bunker. Source

Of course, despite the idyllic setting... there is a war on. Men preparing grave markers. Source

Servicemen tending to the island graveyard. Source