The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Slide. Shirtless American airman standing outside in front of a building. Hawaii. 1945

Two Army officers of the 7th Infantry Division discuss plans of the Marshall Islands on a raised-relief map/terrain...

"July 1945, Ft.[Fort] Shafter, Honolulu, Hawaii - A.P.O. 958, Playing a Chess Game" Four US soldiers on barrack's bunks.

Three native, New Caledonian men, some wearing Western and U.S. military clothing with traditional clothing. New...

"Gunner aims 155mm Howitzer using quadrant for elevation." 2 April 1945

Four crewmen relaxing at their bunks on a warship at an unknown location in the 1940s. Four crewmen in an unknown ship'...

Mutilated body of dead Japanese soldier. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. Circa June 1943

Unloading a DUKW, an amphibious truck, off the USS Rutland and into the ocean after the successful attack on Okinawa in...

Damaged neighborhood in Manila. [1945]

Slide. Five Boeing B-29 Superfortress crew members gathered near a B-29. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...

22nd Marine Regiment cemetery on Eniwetok Island at night. Official caption: "22nd Marine Regiment cemetery on Eniwetok...

View from Shinto shrine on Tinian; looking down road. "Tinian." Late 1945

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