The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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U.S. soldier in postwar Germany sitting on trashcan.

Photograph. A bombed building (Dresdner Bank; Drogerie) filled with rubble and debris. Germany. No date

A "trench dug by Germans at rear of castle show in no. 18." Duisdorf, Bonn, Germany. 1945.

Nose art on B-25 Mitchell bomber; pinup girl of cowgirl with pistols and text "Sweet Sue; Kathy Jeanne"; number of...

Two local women pass by U.S. soldiers in postwar Germany..

Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...

Building facades, Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Photograph. Man standing next to a small wingless prop plane parked in an open field. Unknown location. No date

Photograph. Crowd throwing up a British corporal up in the air during a VE-Day celebration in Piccadilly Circus. London...

Portrait of unidentified US serviceman. Made in France. 1944-45.

American soldiers standing in front of M4 High Speed tractor. "Tractor diver." Europe, location unknown. Circa 1945

U.S. servicemen aboard a Navy vessel returning home after the war in 1945.

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