The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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View of Okinawa from airplane. "Okinawa." Okinawa. 1945-46

A village in New Guinea during World War II.

Three US Marines checking for mines with bayonets and knives in roped-off walkway through sand, amphibious tanks and...

U.S. Army vehicles parked outside the war damaged Manila Metropolitan Theater. From donor's notes: "Metropolitan...

Young native population from Kwajalein Atoll at dedication ceremony after successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll. 'W-...

American soldier in winter gear repairing airplane engine held up with a winch in the Aleutian Islands c. 1943.

"271st Field Artillery fire on Jap positions." [1945]

Unidentified soldier leaning aganist palm tree with cigarette "Gen [General] MacArthur "Pose" without the Pipe-Royal...

Slide. Quonset huts lining a dirt road. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

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

Curtiss Seamew leaving the catapult of an American light cruiser during shakedown; antiaircraft guns in foreground. "...

7th Infantry Division soldiers on Kwajalein, few wearing checkered cloths on their backpacks, used as a recognition...

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