The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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An American flag flies over a military base camp at New Britain in the 1940s.

Signing of the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, on board the USS Missouri (...

Unidentified US servicemen on Guadalcanal in the 1940s.

7th Infantry Division soldier driving jeep through shallow shoreline water. 'W-CPA-44-107-AA 1/31 Weaver. Jeep heading...

View from ocean to coastline and American military base. Commandeered local boats and an LVT [Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

A US Marine, holding a flame thrower, stands near two dead Japanese soldiers; there is a damaged bunker behind them and...

Building foundation and new construction on American military base. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. '"7-28-43. 260."' 28...

Slide. Large pile of full cloth sacks piled outside of a hut. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Coronus Strip runway on Sterling Island. '"Runway on Sterling Island."' Sterling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon...

6.Photograph. Native New Caledonian children. "Pantless - Playing with pennies we gave him for picture." Tuk-Tuk...

Entrance to enlisted men's club called the 'G.I. Dive'. Probably in Tinian in late 1945. Sign reads 'G.I. Dive. E.M....

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