The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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American radar map of Japanese islands. "C-17 21BC RSPM 10 4RD 14 (27 June 45). 1. Tachibana Wan 2. Omuta 3. Ishaya 4....

An unidentified US serviceman on a beach in the Pacific in the 1940s.

USS Shaw (DD-373) sinking after magazine explosion. Official caption: "USS Shaw sinking. US Navy Photo 100-7." From U....

7th Infantry Division soldiers listen to General Charles "Pistol Pete" Corlett, commander of the 7th Infantry Division...

View of a river at an uknown location in the Pacific during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

U.S. Marines sitting on deck of USS Rutland; probably off of Saipan in February 1945. From donor's notes: "The Marines...

Japanese soldier walks along a pier, away from a ship, and carrying a large pack over one shoulder; "Jap soldier comes...

"Rice paddies terraced in mountains near Baguio, Luzon." [1945]

Railroad train passing along river and mountain, Alaska c.1943. Taken from the train.

Group portrait of the Armament Section of the 100th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) in front of tent. 'Master Sergeant...

A soldier sits atop the remains of a Japanese plane at an unknown airbase in the Pacific. Appears to be the Mitsubishi...

Slide. Tall vegetation on the outskirts of a jungle. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

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