The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Nose art for the B-25. "The Eager Beaver" at an unknown location. "B-25" Probably on New Guinea.

Two Army nurses in uniform including leggings, one wearing a head wrap, sit on steps. "251st Station Hospital nurses...

A Japanese prisoner with a large paper "Prisoner of War" tag around his neck and shaved head looks closely at something...

Two B-29 Superfortresses on runway, one with "H" on vertical stabilizer; US serviceman looking at nose of plane in...

419.Photograph. 'File No: 47892 February 6, 1945 Hellcat comes back A Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat lands on its carrier...

Side. Small pile of skeletal remains next to a wood post that has Japanese characters written on it. Saipan. 1945

"Sappers disarm Jap demolition charges at barricade." 5 February 1945

Interior view of the remaining walls and infrastructure of a bomb damaged, roofless church. "Church on Guam." Guam....

Three B-29 superfortresses flying in formation over Fiji in late 1945. "313 Wing B '29's over Fiji."

View of harbor on Guam; top of sunken ship still visible just above water line. Circa 1945

Crash-landed airplane in snowy woods being rigged for retrieval, probably Alaska c. 1943.

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier leans against a makeshift supply depot on Cape Gloucester. "Base camp...

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