The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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French countryside in 1945.

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Antiaircraft guns in foxholes near small US airfield.

Photograph. Emaciated corpses of Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners; wreaths are hanging in the background....

Photograph. Dachau concentration camp prisoners, most likely in hospital ward, are read to by another prisoner in the...

Photograph. American convoy moving through a German town. Personal caption on photo reverse; "Convoy, going through...

View of B-25 Mitchell bombers in flight. Location unknown. 1943-45.

German soldiers in railroad train cars awaiting transportation in Germany in 1945. "German soldaten on way home after...

Anti-tank Siegfried Line and other tank barriers in Germany. "Siegfried Line, Germany." Circa 1945

U.S. soldier reads a postcard while reclining in his bunk in postwar Germany.

Photograph. Two American soldiers milking a cow in a field. ETO. No date

Photograph. American soldier John Janik stands in the back of a half-track with a large group of American soldiers...

Heavily damaged building; rubble in foreground. "Kirndorf, Germany." Possibly Zirndorf, Germany. 1945

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