The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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A B-29 superfortress named the 'Nip Nemesis' in flight over Saipan and Tinian. "Tinian." Probably late 1945

Eleanor Roosevelt visiting a US military base in the Fiji Islands in August 1943. "Taken on the Fiji Islands during the...

27.Photograph. U.S. nurses preparing dirt for garden outside barracks. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Officers aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Officers." 1945

A Japanese anti-aircraft gun at an unknown location. "Nip Ack Ack Gun." Probably on New Guinea.

Slide. Three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses parked on a runway. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

LVTs [Landing Vehicle Tracked] or amphibious tanks unloading into ocean from LST-787 [Landing Ship, Tank]. LST-787 has...

"Japanese "invasion money" used to cause inflation in the Philippines." [1945]

Destruction to buildings along city street from combat, holes in walls visible.'"Village of Agana [Hagta] - Guam."...

Slide. Downward view of the ocean next to a cliff edge. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Aleutian Islands/Alaskan landscape. "7-10-43."'10 July 1943

Oversized cages. "The "brig" ward for POWs or other patients to be locked up, 251st Station Hospital, New Britain."...

Oral History