American soldiers at an oceanside New Guinean village at Christmastime during World War II

Two rows of New Guinean natives wearing loincloths / catamarans moving out to sea / a schooner loaded with scores of waving US soldiers / the men massed at starboard with a man gingerly lowering himself to the craft / the boats returning to shore / a jeep drives off a troop carrier into deep water while a native pulls a rope / VS the native men carry wooden boxes to a large pile then carry to a village under towering palm trees / VS Gen. Hanford MacNider and another walk under a structure and sit in the shade / VS US soldiers walking on a beach; the men seen from the inside of a thatched house / VS the men push a jeep with heavy gun in soft dirt with huts and palms behind; the gun in its caisson / the schooner with the men / the shoreline seen from the ship / palms and village huts