The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"US ships provide covering fire for Lingayen Gulf invasion, Luzon." January 1945

American military prison/stockade on Tinian; sign in front reads 'Island Command Stockade.' Building looks to be...

Wreckage of a war damaged Japanese float plane--without most of fuselage and wings--sitting among destroyed palm trees...

"The palace pavilion in the town of Agana, Guam 45."

"Emperor's Palace, Tokyo. Shows moat around grounds." October 1945

Inside a Japanese plane, probably on New Guinea during World War II. "Inside of a Nip plane."

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A dock at Cape Gloucester. "Dock constructed by the military to facilitate ship...

V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "Here is a section of the opening and targeting operation. Targeting is...

American G.I.s work to open large Japanese shipping crates full of supplies. "Captured enemy supplies on New Britain."...

Aerial view of unidentified Japanese bomb-damaged town below. Japan. Late 1945

Photographer aboard the USS Rutland; camera hanging around his neck. From donor's notes: "Your photographer." 1945

"Wounded US soldiers debark from LST (landing ship tank) hospital ship in Manila Harbor." [1945]

Oral History