The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Lowering the motorboat of the USS Rutland into the ocean using cranes. From donor's notes: "Lowering the gig." 1945

US Marines reading the "Tarawa Times", a news bulletin which is posted to a palm tree. A sign reads: "Tarawa Times....

Two people posing in the distance; probably at the Schönburg Castle in Oberwesel. "Bob Ryan and Alice, Oberwesel Castle...

Casino building behind the main IG Farben Building, headquarters for the United States Forces European Theater. "USFET...

Slide. Airman shaving at an outdoor station; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

A soldier digs out a hole in preparation for a telephone cable. Note that the location has been stricken in the caption...

Unidentified boat dry docked next to Quonset huts. Personal Caption: "RON 35 England." England. Circa 1944

Photograph. Marines traverse a beach. Tall palms and thatched-roof buildings on the beach. New Georgia Islands. Circa...

Photograph, landscape. Grassy fields with borders of trees. A dense forest is in the background. Location unknown. No...

View from above of workstations at an airplane factory. Ohio (probably). Circa 1942-1945

Photograph. A US soldier holds one of the famed Python bivittatus or Burmese pythons in Burma in 1944.

Photograph. Eight US air crewmen lined up outside Quonset hut at Thurleigh Airfield. Near Bedford, England. 1943-45

Oral History