The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Soldiers of Company E, 145th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division in 1945, probably at Bougainville.

A lone soldier looks over coastal defenses of New Britain. "Coastal defense positions are prepared at possible attack...

Aerial view of rubble and devastation after atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. "Nagasaki after the atomic bomb." Nagasaki...

Slide. Staff Sergeant Elmo C. Steeves standing outside in his flight uniform. Personal caption on slide border: "Elmo...

View from US Navy ships approaching Iwo Jima for invasion. Official caption:'"Sun rises on invasion fleet headed for...

View from ocean to coastline and American military base. Commandeered local boats and an LVT [Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Civilian refugees (probably the Chamorro/Chamoru people) from Tinian climbing aboard a U.S. Navy LCT [Landing Craft,...

Officers mugging for the camera outside of the officer's mess. "Filling up ocean. After closing the club, the next day...

USS Iowa. "59494 October 26, 1944 Wash Day for the Big 'I'--- Bucket brigades swab off the decks of the giant USS Iowa...

Snowy field with woods in background, probably Alaska c.1943.

Marquee for American Red Cross Banker's Club at the Ginko Kyokai building in Tokyo, Japan after 1945.

Slide. Blurry. Close-up of a cliff edge. Saipan. Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

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