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South Pacific

Eight Decades On, Vanuatu Still Struggles With America’s World War II Legacy 

Tall Tales of the South Pacific

America’s wartime sailor turned Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener celebrated the South Pacific’s “infinite specks of coral.” But those precious coastlines and the Indigenous people who relied on them were left to suffer when the U.S. dumped tons of military equipment and food into the waters off Vanuatu.