The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A Piper J-3 Cub airplane (a.k.a. L-4) flies low over a field to gather a...

Airplane "Laddie" being repaired by two soldiers on the runway, Alaska, c.1943. Front view

Bomb damage to buildings on the coastline of Japan; seen from the USS Rutland in 1945. From donor's notes: "View inland...

"File No: TR-10981. Plasma on Guam - Navy Hospital Corpsmen tenderly lowering seriously wounded Marine Pfc. [Private...

Refuse dump on Tinian. "Tinian. An old trash dump." Late 1945

Slide. Blurry. Close-up of a cliff edge. Saipan. Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Palm trees line the shore of a bay. "Palm trees fringing the shore along the bay, on the way out to the native village...

"32nd Div troops cross the Orboredo River." 25 February 1945

Officers mugging for the camera outside of the officer's mess. "Filling up ocean. After closing the club, the next day...

Damaged building in Manila. [1945]

Six American soldiers standing in front of "Hoodathunkit" tow truck wrecker in the Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

Group portrait of African-American sailors aboard the USS Rutland in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Stewards and...

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