The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Slide. Damaged Boeing B-29 Superfortress being towed on a runway. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Two men on shore across from the Rouna Falls. "Close-up view of the Falls." Papua New Guinea. 1944

Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with unidentified serviceman. Possibly Guadalcanal in September 1943. Appears to be a...

554.Photograph 'CinCPac 8015 February 26, 1945 Death on Iwo These three Japs [Japanese] were killed by Marine artillery...

Aerial views of the Aleutian Islands, most likely concentrating on Attu and its harbors in 1943.

Graduation day on Guam at Dededo School; an American serviceman stands with Guamanian students. A sign above the school...

"LST brings supplies and reinforcements to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon." January 1945

"Self-propelled 105 mm Howitzer of 126th Cannon Co. fires on enemy." 12 April 1945

Slide. Sergeant Lisle Neher posing for a photograph with a cigar in his mouth a wood hut is in the background.Isley...

"Quad 50 cal machine gun mounted on half track manned by Btry A, 209th AAA Bn, Villa Verde Trail." 7 April 1945

Bomb damage from American B-29s to Japanese city. From donor's notes: "B-29 destruction - Japan." Circa September 1945

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier uses his M1 helmet to fig a foxhole on Guadalcanal, the soldier behind...

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