The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. USS Augusta (CA-31) and landing craft underway towards a French coast. Official caption on front: "USS...

Photograph. Bandaged-covered United States Navy sailors recuperating in makeshift medical bay in a ship. Official...

Photograph. Two United States Army 34th Infantry Regiment soldiers firing a machine gun at Japanese forces. Official...

Photograph. Large group of Boy Scouts sitting on and in front of a log in wearing Dixie cup sailor hats. Presumably New...

Photograph. Soldier sitting on a box while writing down his group's actions for the day; other soldiers are walking on...

American B-24 bomber dropping its payload over Europe. Probably 1944 or 1945

Artillery observers with equipment including binoculars and spotting scopes. "San Milato, Italy." Circa 1944

A "Swiss guard in the Vatican--Rome" in formal dress uniform. Vatican, Italy. Circa 1944-45

"Self-propelled 105 mm Howitzer of 126th Cannon Co. fires on enemy." 12 April 1945

Pacific Islanders during festival or ritual. 194-

Photograph. A French officer stands in a church, looking down at a wooden coffin on the ground nearby. Official caption...

Photograph. US soldiers walk through the ruins of the destroyed town of San Pietro. Official caption on front: "MM-5-...

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