The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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A grove of palm trees at an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

Cadet Bernard J. Mertzweiller, probably in 1942 in the United States. "Cadet."

Photograph. Ruins of a bombed building. "What's left of one of the houses." ETO. No date

Group portrait of the underwater demoltion group aboard the USS Rutland; one sailor has tattoo. From donor's notes: "...

View of Heidelberg and the Church of the Holy Spirit. "Heidelberg town." Germany. 1945

Soviet T-34 medium tanks on display near the Soviet War Memorial; built during the first few months after the war's end...

Slide. Three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in flight over the Pacific Ocean. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Tankers stop their tank by a ruined church. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 28980 9 Dec. Credit...U.S. Army Signal Corps....

View of a wharf. Official caption: "Army Wharf with units in background. Picture taken from downstream end, on 28 June...

Crew members of U.S. torpedo boat PT-507 relaxing on deck of vessel; emblem for Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 34 visible...

Photograph. A New Georgian woman carrying a baby. New Georgia Islands. Circa 1943

Photograph. View through the New Georgian jungle to a thatched-roof building in the distance. New Georgia Islands....

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