The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Large residential house on top of hill in Germany in the 1940s.

Railroad tracks with a carriage in the distance in France.

A group of German soldiers kneeling and standing on a road at Aachen in November 1940.

Facade of the Adlon Hotel with mattresses and furniture piled on sidewalk in front, Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Photograph. Coast of England surrounded by a barbed wire fence; a sign on the beach reads "Danger. Mines. Keep Outside...

"Pvt. Wm. [William] A. Winn funeral. I don't show. Sept. 18, 1943, suicide, Iceland." Funeral for Private William A....

Nose art on B-25 Mitchell bomber; blonde pinup revealing breasts with letters "MMR"; Lt. L. C. Runyon, airplane...

German forest with 8 inch Howitzers positioned within the trees. "Neuendorf, Germany." Circa 1945

Photograph. American flag flying at half-mast in honor of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. American...

Small steamboat named "Kappe" on a river in postwar Germany..

View aboard a Martin B-26 Marauder in Europe in 1945. "In Formation on mission."

Soldiers posed informally in barracks. Thomas 'Tom' Blakey is in the back left, at Camp Wolters, Texas. Circa 1943

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