The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Slide. Close-up of the nose section of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Hell's Belle" [tail code Z Square 7, serial...

View of Port Moresby. "View looking southwestward over Port Moresby at sunset. Taken from the hill at St. John's church...

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

Aerial view of coastline and buildings below, smoke rising from Allied bombing. "Iwo Jima being bombed." See also 2010....

Three unidentified U.S. servicemen on Tinian in late 1945

Local dwellings on Espiritu Santo in March 1945; children play outside and laundry hangs from barbed wire fencing. From...

Painting of Philippine coastline with US Navy in background. 194-

514.Photograph 'CinCPac 8013 26 February 1945 D-Day wreckage Stalled Marine tanks and jeeps of the 'Fighting Fourth'...

Slide. Sergeant Jack N. Lebid sitting on a bench while using a lap desk. Personal caption on slide border: "Lebid."...

Slide. Tents set up next to a long building at a military camp. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

A local splits a coconut for a soldier in Papua New Guinea while a child looks on during World War II.

"Wounded Filipino woman and child wait for someone to escort them to safety." [1945]

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