The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Oversized cages. "The "brig" ward for POWs or other patients to be locked up, 251st Station Hospital, New Britain."...

Soldiers of Company E, 145th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division in 1945, probably at Bougainville.

Close-up photo of pieces of a Japanese flamethrower to be used for weapons analysis. "Captured Japanese flame throwers...

Two Marines receive first aid from other Marines. "Wounded Marines get first aid on Kwajalein." Kwajalein Atoll,...

Servicemen working on a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk at an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

A B-29 superfortress named the 'Nip Nemesis' in flight over Saipan and Tinian. "Tinian." Probably late 1945

Indiginous Filipino dwelling on stilts and with thatched roof; US sailors, probably from the USS Rutland are talking to...

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Two men doing repairs, two carbines hang on the wall behind them. "All kinds of...

Slide. Dirt road leading to tent; Quonset huts line the road. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection on Normandy shore in June 1944. "File Number 252841. June 20...

"American girl eating first American food after 3 years as prisoner." 6 February 1945

Airfield near American military base; B-24 Liberator taking off or landing. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. "7-10-43."'...

Oral History