The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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American soldier with cap, arm on window sill, in pilot seat of damaged airplane in the Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

View of a river at an uknown location in the Pacific during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

"Iceland." A waterfall in Iceland in 1943

Photograph. John Janik stands beside his half-track vehicle with cat insignia painting. Personal caption on photo...

Military inspection of sailors aboard the USS Rutland off Ulithi in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Deck Inspection."...

Multiple large German Army barracks, now empty, many with broken windows. "German barracks. Trier." Trier, Germany. 1945

Skeletons of freight train cars on railroad tracks. "Burned out freight cars on way to be reconditioned." Germany....

Slide. Illustration of a red-headed pin-up woman dressed to imitate a Native American and sitting on an arrowhead...

Two men, one a working class merchant, and the other an upperclass man in top hat and spats, are photographed in the...

A transport ship. Official caption: "SS Sea Marlin. Restricted. Official U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. New Orleans Port...

Photograph. Soldier Benjamin E. Howze takes a break to toss the football in New Guinea in 1943.

Photograph. A large woody tree trunk shoots out of the dense New Georgian jungle. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

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