The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "Finished V-Mail bundled, bagged and ready for dispatch through the APO to...

Multi-branch cemetery on Lunga Point, Guadalcanal. Official caption:'"Joint services cemetery near Lunga Point,...

Aerial views of the Aleutian Islands, most likely concentrating on Attu and its harbors in 1943.

Locals on an outrigger sailboat in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

Open air market under pitched roof in Manila; horses and carriages, kalesas, line the street near the market. From...

"This Bomer [Bomber] B-24 was crashed landed by Major Palmor and his crew. Not long ago on May 18." c. 1943. B-24 crash...

"3619 W-PH-(6). Wing from Japanese bomber shot down on the grounds of the Naval Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7...

Slide. Close-up of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress engine while in flight. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

B-29 superfortresses on Tinian in late 1945; planes are backed up almost to the beach/cliff

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A modified LCM used as patrol boat. "LCM (landing craft mechanized) converted...

"Wreckage of 12" Jap [Japanese] gun." 1945

60.Photograph. Unidentified U.S. serviceman in jungle. New Caledonia. 1944-45

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