The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Swan in lake. Location unknown. 1945-46

View from Hotel Martinez looking back into town. "View from hotel window, Martinez, Cannes." Cannes, France. Postwar...

Slide. Red plane parked near a hanger in a field. Location unknown. 1946

Corpses piled up outside a building in a concentration camp. Unknown location, likely in Europe.

A soldier demonstrating a type of chemical ordnance. Official caption: "Here a soldier dunks a thermite bomb in a five-...

U.S. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats on Attack Transport ship during Atlantic crossing; sailors visible. Circa 1944 See also...

Photograph. A large cache of supplies piled up in the jungle. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph. Civilian man squatting down to feed a flock of pigeons. Trafalgar Square, London, England. No date

Photograph. Women with umbrellas at a marketplace in Burma in 1944.

Photograph. Unidentified person possibly shaving in a helmet.

Photograph. British Short Stirling bomber parked on runway. Thurleigh Airfield, near Bedford, England. 1943-45

Photograph. Grumman F6F Hellcat lands on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hancock. Pacific Islands. See also 2009.365.003...

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