The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Single B-29 Superfortress in flight over US naval vessels. "Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

"Nipa huts where some civilian internees lived on Santo Tomas grounds." 5 February 1945

View from a hill looking down to the shoreline of Guam. "View of Guam's shoreline." Probably 1945

Photograph. 1st Marine Division Marines debarking from USS LST-202 onto a beach; another LST [Landing ship, tanks] is...

American sailors in unidentified bar, probably Hawaii, c.1944

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A man welding a ladder to the side of a vehicle. "All kinds of repairs are made...

"Mortar platoon, 126th Inf Regt, firing 81mm mortars near Orboredo River. 25 February 1945

Slide. Damaged cement bunker with exposed rebar. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

American light cruiser's scout plane, an SO3 Curtiss Seamew, leaving the catapult during shakedown. "2098 - 135 photos...

The 'Enola Gay' on Tinian. "Tinian. Atomic bomber B 29. (a very [illegible] pitcure)." 1945

Army Chaplain and altar with bible aboard the deck of the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Army Chaplain."

View from US Navy ships approaching Iwo Jima for invasion. Official caption:'"Sun rises on invasion fleet headed for...

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