The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Portrait of a U.S. soldier looking up from reading a newspaper in postwar Germany. Soldier is identified as Forde.

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Four unidentified US soldiers.

"Capt. Vageamast, Iceland." A Nissen hut is in the background.

Crew member poses with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Stinky" in Europe in 1945.

Photograph. Bodies of dead adults and children, including a small baby girl laid out on the ground inside Buchenwald...

Infantrymen under fire. "ETO-HQ-44-13126. Englash. 28 Aug. Signal corps photo. A U.S. infantry column under attack on...

Bulldozer pushing building rubble off streets. "Remains of St. Lo, France after the breakthrough by US troops." Saint-L...

German soldiers line up for communion during a religious service with altar in woods on an unknown date at an unknown...

Damaged British aircraft behind barbed wire. "Munich, Germany." Circa 1945

Damage to castle moat in the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1945. "Moat around wall in every city of Nuremberg, Germany...

Unidentifiable planes in flight over clouds. Location unknown, probably ETO. 1943-45.

Oral History