Nanumea Wartime Photos from the US National Archives

Welcome for Major General Willis Hale and staff, on his visit to Nanumea, 21 December 1943

Living quarters for the Enlisted Men

Control Tower, Nanumea Airfield

Loading bombs on the B-24 Liberator bomber “Bolivar”

Refuelling a Curtis P-40 “Warhawk” Fighter

The U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., has many photos taken at Nanumea during the American occupation in the Second World War. These can be searched and downloaded for free — this links to the Nanumea pictures:

https://catalog.archives.gov/search?page=1&q=ellice%20islands%20nanumea

The photos on this page are from the Archive’s collection — there are many more pictures on the archive site.