The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Nose art for the B-24. "Heaven Can Wait." Probably on New Guinea.

"Tanks strafe Jap [Japanese] positions ahead of advancing GI's." [1945]

Multiple LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) heading to battle on the shore of a Pacific island. The vehicles are LVT(A)-4s...

533.Photograph Douglas C-47 Skytrains and Curtiss C-46 Commandos parked on tarmac. 'File Number: TR-12940 March 30,...

View from airplane looking over into Saipan harbor. "Saipan." Probably 1945

American soldier standing in snowy field with mountain range in background, Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

One of the camps where Earl O'Neill and his fellow soldiers lived in New Guinea during World War II. "Our house."

War damaged downtown Manila. From donor's notes: "Banking Center." Circa June 1945. The ruined Chaco Building is in...

Nisei (American of Japanese ancestry) soldiers under sign sign for Wakayamashi Railroad Station. The soldier on the...

Slide. Elevated, jagged limestone covered by trees. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

An American soldier poses with a gun over the body of a dead Japanese sniper lying in a ditch. "Dead Jap sniper on...

Troops unload from LCMs [Landing Craft Mechanized]. "File Number: 310128. Released: April 9, 1945. Panay 'incident'...

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