The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Douglas Street. "Street scene at the 'Four Corners', looking north-east along Douglas Street. On the left are the...

American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.

Back view of the remaining walls of large, roofless building. "Guam." See also 2010.216.082. Guam. 1944-45

"Nip landing barge." Probably on New Guinea.

"Enemy soldier hit by flame thrower." [1945]

Slide. Two American airmen standing outside; one is smoking. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Dozens of Filipina women wash clothes in a river. "Troops advance along river edge while Filipino women wash clothes...

Photograph. Four female United Service Organizations [USO] performers crossing a rope bridge barefoot; all are wearing...

27.Photograph. U.S. nurses preparing dirt for garden outside barracks. New Caledonia. 1944-45

"From the Courtyard of the Moana Hotel Looking Toward Royal Hawaiian Hotel" c.1944

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

"Troops use engineer boats to gain beachhead on south bank of Pasig River, Manila." 23 February 1945

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