The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Japanese cemetery on hill; war and bomb damage all around. From donor's notes: "Japanese cemetery." Circa September 1945

Two B-29 Superfortresses on runway, one with "H" on vertical stabilizer; US serviceman looking at nose of plane in...

"Soldier exhibits helmet with bullet hole, and bullet which raced around inside instead of killing him." Manila,...

View from airplane flying over Pacific Ocean in 1945. "Up in the blue yonder."

59.Photograph. Unidentified U.S. serviceman on chair outside Quonset hut. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Slide. Two small groups of American airmen looking of the edge of a cliff at the ocean below. Saipan, Northern Mariana...

1.Photograph. Native New Caledonian family outside home. New Caledonia. November 1944

287.Photograph. USS Iowa. '256646 October 26, 1944 Shakedown Scrubdown-- Enlisted men aboard the USS Iowa form 'swab...

Group portrait of "H" Division aboard the USS Rutland; all men are wearing helmets. From donor's notes: ""H" Division...

Two Army nurses in uniform including leggings, one wearing a head wrap, sit on steps. "251st Station Hospital nurses...

Side. Small pile of skeletal remains next to a wood post that has Japanese characters written on it. Saipan. 1945

Emaciated Japanese prisoners of war wearing USMC uniforms and large paper tags around their necks are served a much-...

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