The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"Damage to legislative building in Manila." February 1945

A native islander rows several American soldiers on an outrigger canoe. "I...

Construction and crane on Pacific Island, probably Guam. "Tex." Guam. [1944-45]

Soldiers in Brodie helmets (M1917 Helmet) stand at parade rest at an unknown Pacific location during World War II....

Slide. Airman working on top of a wing of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress; another airman is standing next to a fuel...

Sailors singing during religious ceremony aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Chaplain Fritz." 1945

Soldiers attempt to get a 2 1/2 ton truck across a stream in New Guinea as locals look on during World War II.

Slide. Illustration of a naked woman wearing a cape painted onto the nose of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "The Dragon...

Commander Popkin aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Comdr. Popkin (former Exec.)." 1945

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

"Devastation of Nagasaki Industrial (Factory) District by 2nd Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan." 22 September 1945

49.Photograph. Barbara Forrester posing with other nurses. New Caledonia. 1944-45

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