The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Sailors from the USS Rutland listen to a record player on Ulithi in May 1945; records are on the ground in the...

German children posing around elaborately carved entranceway. "Helmstadt doorway." Helmstedt, Germany. 1946

Road sign announcing entrance to American district of postwar Germany. "Entrance to Berlin, American Zone." Berlin,...

Slide. Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Century Limited" being inspected. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

A Catholic priest strolls by the large reflecting pool in the front of a former royal residence. Personal caption: "...

Massive bomb damage to town, possibly Saint-Lô. Normandy, France. Circa 1944

Photograph. A stream runs through the dense New Georgian jungle. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph. A New Georgian man holds a mallet to play an instrument that is balanced on a protruding tree root. New...

Photograph. A serviceman standing in a muddy field while smoking a pipe. Location unknown. No date

Interior view of a machinery shop at an airplane factory. Newark, Ohio. Circa 1942-1945

Photograph. A B-24 Liberator on a makeshift airfield in Burma near the Ledo Road in 1944.

Photograph, landscape. Trees in park and waterway. England. 1943-45

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