The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Double exposure; war damaged buildings in postwar Germany.

Photograph, cropped. Large crowd of civilians and Allied troops gathered on either side of the road leading to the...

Three soldiers cooking and serving food under camoflauge in snow. "Cooks." Europe. Circa 1945

Soldiers' showers at St. Quentin, France in December 1944. "Our showers at St. Quenton, France. 12/03/44-5/01/45. built...

Photograph. A line of vehicles stopped on a snowy road with horses and wagons in background. Personal caption on photo...

A German Army officer wearing a Schirmmtze and smoking a pipe stands next to a sergeant in Germany on an unknown date....

Six men in field with a Maschinengewehr 08 (MG 08 heavy machine gun) on an unknown date in Germany. Appears to be...

Photograph. Massive amounts of rubble pushed up onto sidewalks; heavy bomb damage to unknown city along road. Germany....

View looking down onto a German village with children in the foreground in 1945.

Three German civilians on a dirt road in postwar Germany.

German photograph of German soldiers standing over the bodies of dead Americans, searching them for equipment. "ETO-HQ-...

French city street with U.S. soldier in foreground in 1945. "France."

Oral History