Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 April 1944Vol. XIV, No. 9

Pacific

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Islands

Monthly

April 17, 1944

Vol. Xiv No. 9.

Established 1930

[Registered at the G.P.0., transmission by post as a newspaper]

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In 1941, Abemama was a primitive atoll of the Gilbert Three Europeans lived there, with 900 natives; and life went on much as Robert Louis Stevenson saw it when he lived thure 60 years ago. Then war came to the Gil berts. This photo graph (taken by United States Marine Corps) American plane fuelling at Abemama, while the grass-skirted Gilbertese either help or look on.

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