The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

Map is loading...

A termite mound in Australia during World War II. "An ant hill in Australia."

American radar map of Japanese islands. "C-18 21BC RSPM 10 4RD 17 (27 June 1945). 1. Osaki Hana. 2. Shimibara Kaiwan 3...

"Grass burned on perimeter of "Kobayasi Line" Luzon, P.I." [1945]

Robbie Briggle in front of building, probably barracks, in the Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

View from sea of the steep cliffs of the shoreline of Guam. "Black cliffs of Guam." Probably 1945

Sailors from the USS Rutland listen to a record player on Ulithi in May 1945; records are on the ground in the...

A soldier poses with a woman and child in New Guinea during World War II.

Airfield near American military base; B-24 Liberator taking off or landing. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. "7-10-43."'...

A WAC seated at a table handling the mail with a Tech Sgt. seated in the next chair looking at the camera. "John's...

A B-29 superfortress named the 'Nip Nemesis' in flight over Saipan and Tinian. "Tinian." Probably late 1945

Ships in a bay in the Phillipines. "Sunset, Subic Bay. [Illegible] '46. Jap cruiser on bottom sunk by PT boats. Lt....

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

Oral History