The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Two soldiers wrestle at a camp on an unknown Pacific location during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

Photograph. Male and female United Service Organizations [USO] performers sitting at the front of a group of Marines...

Officers from the USS Rutland enjoy cold beer on Ulithi in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Comm. [Commander] Hutton, Etc...

"Atrocity: Pedro Herrera was machine gunned when he tried to escape from house Japs set on fire." 2 March 1945

Christmas card sent from Tinian in December 1945; Montage of photographs includes Tinian harbor, North Field and a...

Filipino men roast a pig. "A close-up of one of the pigs being roasted shows how a pole is passed completely through...

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

USS LCI(L)-30 landing troops carrying stretchers onto a beach during a second assult wave. US Coast Guard photo for "...

32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers huddled around specific grave marker, also with a propeller buried in the ground,...

"Jap fortification destroyed." 27 March 1945

View looking out onto Tinian coastline and harbor. "Tinian. Harbor." Early, probably January 1946

106.Photograph. American man and woman near waterfall, native New Caledonian man paddling boat from which they came....

Oral History