The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Military inspection of sailors aboard the USS Rutland off Ulithi in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Deck Inspection."...

"2098 - 135 photos - 2098. For Release: PM papers. January 31, 1944. Shakedown: The task of quickly developing fighting...

Water buffalo in a stream. "Water buffalo - Guam." Guam. 1944-45

The Hotel Moresby. "Port Moresby has only two hotels, this, the Hotel Moresby is now being used as an NCO'S club for...

32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers with a 20mm antiaircraft gun near Massacre Bay. "20mm [illegible] south of Massacre Bay...

American soldier on "battlion fatigue detail sweeping up the hedge cuttings 3/23/45", probably in Hawaii.

Beached and abandoned Japanese ships along coast. "Wrecked ships - Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Refuse dump or wrecked airplane. "Tinian." Probably taken in late 1945

Six soldiers rigging skids for towing a P-39 airplane being lifted by a wrecker truck during retrieval operation in the...

Man silhouetted again Pacific Ocean. Taken on Guam circa 1945.

US servicemen in chow line to enter Quonset hut marked Officers Mess.' "Chow line. Guadalcanal in 1943. South Pacific...

Aerial view of damage after atomic bomb drop by 10th Air Force. "3PR5M422-IV 153 20AF Restricted." Reverse: "Hiroshima...

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