The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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A church burns in a small town. Note that units have been stricken in the caption. Official caption: "ETO HQ 45 35100...

Vehicles await transportation to the war zone. Official caption: "Official U.S. Army Photograph. New Orleans Port of...

View from above looking down onto U.S. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat military base along English Coastline; many tents...

Photograph. A native canoe docked on a beach. Soldiers and locals mill about. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph, landscape. View from a hilltop. Hillside below is covered in piles of sticks as well as trees. Location...

Photograph. US soldiers working on the Ledo Road in Burma in 1944

Photograph. Three unidentified British aircraft lined up in a field. Thurleigh Airfield, near Bedford, England. 1943-45

Photograph. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in flight over the Pacific, probably launched from the U.S.S. Hancock at sea in the...

Photograph. Two servicemen carrying a piece of lumber through a camp. Presumably the Aleutian Islands. No date

Photograph. Demolished Church on Okinawa. Inscription on back reads: "Church on Okinawa or I should say whats left of...

Photograph. Two US naval officers stand together on a ship deck. Blurry image. Location unknown. No date

Photograph. Unidentified US sailors, some shirtless, play around on the deck of the ship. Location unknown. No date

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