The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

Map is loading...

Aerial view of Okayama, Japan, after Allied firebombing. "Confidential. Post strike. Okayama 90.27. Damage assessment...

"113th Eng Bn pumped 3200 gallons of oil and gasoline into Fort Drum to blow up Japs [Japanese] inside." 13 April 1945

A group of Filipino men play cards. "The men, for the most part, have a definite dislike for anything resembling...

Two 7th Infantry Division soldiers look at dead bodies of other American soldiers. 'W-CPA-44-106-BK. 1/31. Ellner. Two...

Ship priest with attendent offering communion, bread and wine, to sailors aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "...

Exterior view of a large, open-air military dining area. "Our new mess hall - Guam." Guam. 1944-45

View from sea of the steep cliffs of the shoreline of Guam. "Black cliffs of Guam." Probably 1945

552.Photograph 'C.G. 48285 February, 1945 Sea burial for Marine killed on Iwo Jima The flag-draped body of a U. S....

Several soldiers look on as one receives his paycheck. "Pay-Day." September 1944.

Tinian landscape in 1945; view from hills down onto beaches. "Tinian, 1945."

85.Photograph. U.S. nurse in bathing suit near U.S. Navy sailor. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Oral History