The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Granite portal with iron gates and iron fence. "'In memoriam'. Monument honoring those residents of the State of Papua...

Group portrait of the Chief Petty Officers aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Chief Petty Officers." Circa...

An unidentified US serviceman with native children on Guadalcanal in 1942.

Beached and abandoned Japanese ships along coast, US trucks possibly salvaging from the ship. "Wrecked ships - Iwo."...

""I" Co, 3rd Bn, 129 Inf Regt advance on Yangiran Barrio, Luzon." [1945]

Two G.I.s hold up the skid plate of a Landing Craft, Mechanized inside the LCM. "Skid Plate on LCM, New Britain." New...

Four soldiers rigging P-39 airplane "43291" for lift by wrecker during retrieval operation in the Aleutian Islands c....

Unidentified Red Cross woman in uniform sitting on rock ledge; bicycle in background behind tree. "Dec 29th '45. Notice...

Inarajan Bay, Guam in 1945. "Inerajana Bay."

War Correspondent Ernie Pyle and Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey. Dempsey was a commander in the United States...

Photograph. M4A1 Sherman tank debarking from USS LST-202 onto a beach; several Coast Guardsmen are on deck and several...

Soldiers pose on a Willys "Jeep" Truck, 1/4 ton, 4x4 in New Guinea during World War II.

Oral History