Native South Pacific Islanders in WWII - Women

These pictures of indigenous women of the South Pacific by the Signal Corps are from the scrapbooks of Lt. Colonel O. Howard Davidsmeyer, Sr.

Church in Tacloban on Leyte in Phillipines

New Guinea

Peno River - Luzon

This grouping of three photos was on the inside front page of one of my grandfather's WWII photo albums. He would come out with the scrapbooks and ask if a visitor would like to see a picture of his secretary during the war.  He'd flip open the scrapbook and there was the  giant 8x10 glossy of the above islander wearing her necklaces and a smile. Next to her were one-inch tall photos of the two WACs who were grandpa's secretaries during the war. I got a kick out of it ... grandma hated when he did this!

Leyte - Near Ormoc (Ormec?)

Navy Laundry - Dutch New Guinea

Tupeseli - Native Village