The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. Smoke rising from the USS St. Louis (CL-49) after a Japanese kamikaze attack. Official caption on front: "...

Photograph. Two Allied prisoners of war clinging to ship debris after the after the sinking of the SS Rakuyō Maru....

Slide. Two Medical Corps officers sitting in front of a garden; the Dolomites are in the background. Italy. No date

Photograph. Back of the occupied driver and passenger seats inside a GMC AKX-352, as seen from the body; Willard Harry'...

Photograph. Photograph of a Packard V-1650 Merlin, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. This image shows a...

Photograph. Photograph of the Packard Work to Win awards, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. This photograph...

Photograph. Felucca floating on the Suez Canal. Stamped date on front: "1946." Personal caption on reverse: "Native...

American B-24 bomber with engine on fire; its engine is leaving a trail of smoke. ""Coming in on a wing and a prayer";...

French forest, probably with damage from artillery fire. "Rhrback, France." Possibly Forbach, France. Circa 1944

Early Higgins boat at a plant on the Louisiana coast in the 1940s. Early Higgins boat at plant on Louisiana coast. 194-

"Manila post office with Pasig River separating North Manila. Jones Bridge replaced by "Bailey" bridge on left." [1945]

F4U Corsairs and F4Fs fighter planes on an air field Guadalcanal Solomon Islands in 1943.

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