The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Destruction in Hiroshima, with a view of a river in the background. "Hiroshima, [likely Nishikawa] West River."...

"Philippine countryside scenes." Philippines. 1944.

"1st FA shells Jap position prior to 6th Div attack." [1945]

Young Marine blows to cool coffee. '"File No: C.G. 3345. Coffee for the Conquerors of Eniwetok - These Marines,...

Thatch-roofed chapel. "Thatched chapel built by native labor under the direction of the native labor control, ANGAU."...

Narrow gauge railway and man on a draisine in Alaskan landscape. "24"'gauge tacks on runway."' East Arm of Holtz Bay...

American Red Cross worker cleaning U.S. serviceman's nails inside the Tinian Town Club, an enlisted men's club operated...

"Atrocity: Lourdes Ental was wounded by Jap hand grenade thrown at her." 2 March 1945

Slide. Blurry. Black and white butterfly on a yellow flower. Saipan. 1945

Shinto shrine on Tinian. Late 1945

Military cemetery at Darwin, Australia on 19 February 1942. The marker in the foreground reads: "W.E. McCord, USN." "...

Lumber and sandbags used as a coastal defense position. "Coastal defense positions are prepared at possible attack...

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