The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. Ruins of southwestern German city of Ulm after bombing, with civilians walking through. Printed caption on...

Lt. Bernard J. Mertzweiller on leave in Europe in the 1945

Photograph. American reinforcements and supplies land on the coast of France. Official caption on reverse: "2517 / From...

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. German airplane junk yard.

American Sherman tank along roadside. "Grating, Germany."

Large residential house on top of hill in Germany in the 1940s.

Aerial view of the Siegfried Line. "ETO-HQ-44-16265. Moran. 30 Sept. Signal corps photo. Part of the "dragon's teeth"...

Blurry image of a soldier with the U.S. Army walking in front of military truck in postwar Germany.

"Part of a bivouac area for US troops at Bredelar, Germany where Germans had an engineer dump and stored all kinds of...

View from above onto German city in 1945.

American truck drives past a destroyed German tank. "ETO-HQ-44-100067. McHugh. 5 Aug. Signal corps photo. This German...

A group of German soldiers kneeling and standing on a road at Aachen in November 1940.

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