The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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View looking down onto shoreline; railroad tracks visible. "Riviera coastline." French Riviera. Postwar 1945

Slide. Chrome plane parked next to a paved road. Location unknown. 1946

A small plane stuck on a flooded field. Official caption: "7A-1494/ETO HQ 45 11574 2 Feb. Credit...US Army Signal Corps...

Portrait of unknown soldiers and officers, likely taken at the Army Service of Supply Unit Training Center, New Orleans...

U.S. torpedo boat PT-518 speeding through open water, as viewed from another PT boat. Personal Caption: "1944. RON 35...

Photograph. New Georgian mother and child. Man in the background smokes a cigarette. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph. Two tents in an open, empty field. Location unknown. No date

Photograph. A boat on a river in Burma flies a British flag as two other boats race to reach it in 1944.

Photograph. Farmers plow a field using oxen in India in 1944.

Photograph. B-17 Flying Fortress nose and nose cone. Nose art is painting of woman diving and the words "Lady Elaine."...

Photograph. Japanese men moving oxen-drawn cart through city streets lined with automobiles. Japan. 1945

Photograph. Blurry image of two U.S. airmen joking with each other at dance at the Abilene, Texas air field. Stamped on...

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