Tulagi Policemen, Guadalcanal Campaign, circa 1942

1942

“FRIENDLY NATIVES---- These friendly natives of Tulagi, Solomon Islands, have been useful as guides to U.S. Marines, now holding the vital islands in the few of repeated Japanese attempts to recapture them.” "More police." From the Thayer Soule Collection (COLL/2266) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH.