The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"Quad 50 cal machine guns fire at enemy bombers." Mounted on half track. [1945]

An injured soldier, probably a Japanese prisoner of war, lays on operating table while being looked after by American...

View looking down onto harbor of Guam; dozens of U.S. Navy ships in the harbor. "Guam harbor." Probably 1944 or 1945

A mine explodes several yards away; you can make out clods of dirt being thrown by the explosion. "Explosion from...

Beached landing craft including an LVT [Landing vehicle, tracked], jeeps stuck in sand and equipment litter beach; LSM-...

Slide. Aerial view of a coastline. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Beached and abandoned ships along coast. "Wrecked ship - Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Earl O'Neill, top left, and W.C. Long, top right, with fellow tent mates at an unknown Pacific location."The boys in my...

Slide. Two military trucks transporting American airmen through a base; other airmen are standing outside of their...

Soldiers shovel dirt into the back of a CCKW to be used for building a road. "Soldiers load fill dirt for road...

Sgt Robbie Briggle with baby girl, probably his daughter, on step in front of building c. 1943.

513.Photograph. 'File Number: 700213 Released: August 7, 1945 To the Top Rock cliffs once scaled by Marines in the...

Oral History