The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Curtiss SO3C Seamew observation floatplane. "2098 - 135 photos - 2098. For Release: PM papers. January 31, 1944....

Photographer aboard the USS Rutland; camera hanging around his neck. From donor's notes: "Your photographer." 1945

Slide. American military camp from a distance. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) coxswain from the Coast Guard-manned LST-261 helps pull in two men,...

283.Photograph. USS Iowa. '46343 October 26, 1944 Tons of Death Six 16-inch rifles of the U.S.S. Iowa bellow in unison...

View of the Officers' Beach near Agat, Guam in 1945. "Officers Beach near Agat, Guam."

Unidentified US servicemen on Guadalcanal in the 1940s.

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A man welding a ladder to the side of a vehicle. "All kinds of repairs are made...

Roots of large Banyan tree near US military tents in Pacific island jungle. Probably Sterling Island, Treasury Islands...

Slide. Airman on a ladder cleaning the barrel of a machine gun on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress; two other airmen are...

A damaged Japanese dive bomber at an unknown location. "Nip Dive Bomber." Probably on New Guinea.

Interior of berths aboard unidentified US Navy vessel. Pacific Theater. 1945-46

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