The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"File Number: 243454 September 19, 1944. Reveille at dawn-- Sprawled out below the wings of Navy planes, Marines en...

Seven soldiers preparing airplane "Laddie" for lift by wrecker truck, probably Alaska c. 1943.

Mass-produced photograph of city street; the street is paved, there are ornate street lights, there are automobiles...

General view of destruction. "Hiroshima. Looking at news building." Hiroshima, Japan. 1945

Photograph. American soldier standing next to his half track armored vehicle with cat insignia art. Hornbach, Germany....

Commander Popkin aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Comdr. Popkin (former Exec.)." 1945

A surrendering Japanese soldier, surrounded by Marines, is pulled up out of a foxhole. There is a machine gun on a...

German firemen fighting fire on roof of WAC (Women's Army Corps) billet/barracks at the Hotel Victoria. "WAC billet...

View of riverside Frankfurt and the Main River; Saint Bartholomew's Cathedral/Frankfurt Cathedral in background. "Main...

Slide. Asian American airmen eating in front of a Quonset hut. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.1945

An elderly woman sells what appears to be dried herbs on her cart in a market. Two women behind her stop to look at the...

Soldiers attending a training class. Official caption: "Capt. Teclar conducting the Classification School of the 6th...

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