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Caroline Islands, Yap Island

U.S. interests in the South Pacific : the Freely Associated States : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations and the Subcommittee on Native American and Insular Affairs of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, September 25, 1996

Palm Trees were about the only objects on the Pacific Island of Guam which bowed before Typhoon Karen without submitting to her 172 mph winds. The tall trees continue to sway gently in slight breezes, while all beneath them is wreckage and disaster.

Kamehameha II

View from Punchbowl Hill

Kekuanaoa, ex-Governor of Oahu, and father of Kamehameha IV and V

View in Honolulu taken from the old premises

Winners - Nobuo Yamauchi, center, manager of the Hilo, Hawaii Little League team, poses with two of his players who aided in Hilo’s win over Montreal, Canada 8-5 in the second game of the Little League World Series at Williamsport. Russell Arikawa, left, hit a bases-loaded home run while Gary Matsumoto was the winn[ing pitcher]

Unidentified woman

Unidentified child

Emma, Queen Consort to Kamehameha IV

Mid-Pacific Polio Victim--John Driskell, 6, taken from an Army transport in mid-pacific to Honolulu by a Coast Guard cutter after he was struck by polio, greets his father, Tech. Sgt. Percy Driskell of South Port, Me., at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force base yesterday after arrival by air from Hawaii. He was taken to Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco later yesterday, where he will receive therapy treatment.