The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. Armed United States Marines exiting landing craft and wading through hip-deep water towards a beach....

Photograph. African American United States Army soldier rescuing a wounded pilot from a plane crash in a tree; the...

Photograph. Papuan men carrying two United States Army soldiers on stretchers up a hill; other soldiers observe....

Photograph. United States Marines pushing a rubber boat loaded with wounded Marines through waist-deep water. Official...

Photograph. United States Marines marching through a jungle. Official caption on front: "Moving up through the mud and...

Slide. Distant view of a mountain range; presumably the Karwendel Mountains, at the Austrian border. 1945

Photograph. 5th Armored Division staff sergeant and other soldiers standing by the hood of a commandeered Steyr 1500...

Photograph. Corporal Hiram Boone standing at parade rest outside of a single-story building with wooden roof in his...

Photograph. Photograph of a Packard wartime work vs peacetime work chart, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan...

Photograph. Smoke rising in the distance from an ammunition test at an American military base. Stamped date on front: "...

American soldiers watching a woman play the accordian at a United Service Organization show (USO) in Italy. Probably...

Ruins of Pompeii, probably taken during a sightseeing trip. "Pompeii, Italy." Circa 1944

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