The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Street scene: horse-drawn sled on street, sign for General Motors Off. Service/Schneekettendienst [snow chain services...

Slide. Beach below the edge of a military camp. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Soldiers look through incoming mail. Unit patches are scratched out in the photograph. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44...

German prisoners of war smoking. Official caption: "Confidential. Not to be published. Field press censor. 102. SHAEF 4...

A nurse's lounge on a hospital ship. Official caption: "W.O. #1432, Neg, #983. 17 August 1944. 1. Nurses's Lounge...

Photograph. A solider stands in front of a tent in New Guinea. 1942

Photograph. Female and male factory workers inspect machines and machine parts in room; weights and scales also in room...

Photograph. Grove of tall palm trees. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph. Two servicemen sitting in a room with floral wallpaper. The serviceman on the right is sitting on a cushion...

Photograph. Barge dry docked, supported by wooden timber cribs. Location unknown. No date

Photograph. A Kachin villager poses in front of a US military truck in Burma in 1944.

Photograph. Wreckage at airfield after a B-17 Flying Fortress caught on fire and detonated the bombs onboard. Thurleigh...

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