The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. Parts from downed German planes piled by a shed. Location unknown. No date

Photograph, aerial. Columns of smoke rising from Japanese ships hit by American aerial bombings. Official caption on...

Photograph. United States Army paratroopers walking through burning, war-damaged terrain; a coastline is in the distant...

Photograph. United States Marines advancing along a beach; ships are in the distant background. Official caption on...

Photograph. Japanese bombers flying low over the ocean and though clouds of antiaircraft flak. Official caption on...

Photograph. United States Marine officer leading a line of Japanese military officers past United States Marines and...

Photograph. Starboard side view of the USS West Virginia (BB-48); the deck is crowded with United States Navy sailors....

Slide. Distant landscape view of Calvi. Personal caption on slide border: "Corsica." Calvi, Corsica. 1945

Photograph. Corporal Hiram Boone kneeling in front of the mess hall tent at an Army camp. Personal caption on reverse...

One of the beachheads with equipment unloaded from the ships. "ETO-HQ-44-4887. Fougel. 9 June. Signal corps photo. View...

Elaborate fountain. "Naples, Italy." Circa 1944

Benito Mussolini's body being dispalyed after execution. "Benito Finito." Milan, Italy. 29 April 1945

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