The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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View from in front of fence of children playing inside Camp Churo, a camp established by the U.S. military to house...

View of anti-aircraft fire and machine gun fire in ocean. Official caption:'"Jap [Japanese] planes attack through hail...

Unidentified Red Cross woman in her uniform. She is laughing and smiling. Taken outside the 'Riverside Inn' Red Cross...

"Beachead at Linguyen Gulf, Luzon, P.I." 4 January 1945

Slide. Navy and yellow plane parked outside of a hanger. Location unknown. 1946

Officers look on from a platform and a bugler plays his horn near his band for the dedication ceremony of a newly built...

LST-124 and LST-125 [Landing Ship, Tank] unloading supplies onto unknown Pacific Island, barrage balloons above ship...

Deserted beach on Guam. Circa 1945

Aerial view of hospital ship in the Pacific Ocean, probably near Japan; red cross clearly visible on deck of ship. "...

Attack transports and LCVPs seen from the USS Rutland headed for invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945; the USS...

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A native islander carries a machete beneath his arm, as well as handmade bow and...

Aerial view of bomb damage to cathedral and native village housing along a road; American military base in background....

Oral History