The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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A Filipino home coverted into a souvenir shop. "Another of the Filipino homes converted into a shop. This one offered...

Three officers evaluate a large gun set up for coastal defense of New Britain. "Inspection of coastal gun emplacement...

"File no: 3327-14. For Release: 9 P.M. Thursday, 17 May 1945. Inferno at Sea-- USS Franklin's trial by fire. A crown of...

"Gun crew rams home projectile of 155 mm Howitzer near Ambayabang River.

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Two men work on the propeller of a landing craft. "Landing craft are beached for...

110.Photograph. View from hill looking down onto U.S. hospital wards. New Caledonia. 1944-45

The hospital ship USS Mercy as seen from the USS Rutland, probably off Okinawa in April 1945. From donor's notes: "USS...

Lowering the motorboat of the USS Rutland into the ocean using cranes. From donor's notes: "Lowering the gig." 1945

Tractors and other heavy machinery used for road or runway construction. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. "7-28-43. 256...

Hula Dancers, "Court Yard Stage Royal Hawaiian Hotel Waikiki Bch (Beach) Honolulu, Hawaii, 1944"

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

Civilian refugees (probably of the Chamorro/Chamoru people) from Tinian aboard a U.S. Navy LCT [Landing Craft, Tank]....

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