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When the war was won in 1945 the majority of these instant bases were simply abandoned and left to rust away. Buildings were left to fall into ruin. Airfields hacked from the jungle were allowed to grow back up and anything not worth shipping back to the states was left behind. The islanders, used to the new standard of living they enjoyed under occupation looked to the skies and the horizon for the return of the 'cargo' and the almost magical items they had been introduced to by the visiting allied forces. Left to their own devices the islanders slowly augmented their pre-war religious activities with ceremonies designed in their minds to restart the flow of the precious 'cargo'. Western anthologists wrote of these cargo cults across the pacific after the war. Islanders would in effect reopen their abandoned bases, complete with bamboo replica antenna in place of radios that had been removed, straw airplanes, and wooden control towers. In these now holy places they would parade and light signal fires, raise flags and wave landing paddles so that the gods would know where to bring new cargo. Whispered tales were spoken of a second coming of the cargo and some communities even thought of the west in near godlike proportions. Historian Paul Raffaele notes in his article in Smithsonian magazine that "In 1964, one cargo cult on New Hanover Island in Papua New Guinea offered the U.S. government $1,Air Max Wright,000 for Lyndon Johnson to come and be their paramount chief."
Please deliver unto us the blessed fudge disc.
President Johnson is thought to have years went by without an answer from their gods and the cargo cults largely evaporated with time and increased heartbreaking awareness of the true nature of the modern world. There is however at least one large cargo cult that is still in active practice on the island of Tanna in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Here some islanders still speak of a mythical American named "John Frum" who will one day return and bring with him the cargo they have missed since 1946. It has been proposed that the name “John Frum” was produced as a pidgin remembrance of an introduction (i.e. “I’m John from New York, etc). The practitioners of this faith maintain a uniformed drill team complete with rifles replicated from bamboo and march in regular formations under a homemade forty-eight starred US Flag.
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Military action has always been the surest way to bring about a changing point in a society. Life on the multitude of islands of the Pacific remained largely the same for thousands of years until western influence brought about a sudden and often shocking change. During World War Two this was observed best on the islands that suddenly went from quiet backwaters to important strategic bases in the drive to invade Imperial Japan by the Allies. These calm little islands were overrun by thousands of Allied soldiers sailors and marines thrusting them unexpectedly into the twentieth century. These isolated societies often had their first contact with the outside world when a navy ship landed and began to unload bulldozers to contstruct an airfield. The inhabitants were shocked and amazed by the westerners and all of their machines and strange gear that was simply referred to as 'cargo'. Dozens of logistics support bases sprung up everywhere the war in the pacific came to within a thousand or so miles. The allied forces needed a constant flow of munitions, uniforms, communication gear, fuel, spare parts and of course the ubiquitous C rations. It was these canned and processed meat and hash,Air Rejuven 8, spaghetti,Nike Shox TL Shoes, vegetable stew, or ham and egg meals with biscuits,Nike Air Max 180, Hershey bars, Wrigley’s chewing gum, caramels, beverage powders, coffee and something called a "fudge disk" that enraptured the locals.
“In John We Trust”- Smithsonian Magazine February 2006 article by Paul Raffaele,
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