The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

Map is loading...

View looking down onto Saipan runways. "Norma. B 29 bomber strip - Saipan." Probably 1945

115.Photograph. View from hill looking down onto doctors' and nurses' quarters near hospital wards. New Caledonia. 1944...

Locals on an outrigger sailboat in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

Traditional Filipino horse cart called a "karomata." From donor's notes: "Carameta pony and cart." Circa June 1945

"Engineers work to restore bridge on road to Baguio, Luzon." [1945]

View from deck of US Navy vessel to two other American Liberty ships including the SS Andreas Honcharenko (2829)....

View looking out onto Tinian coastline cliffs. "Aerial view of Tinian shoreline." Early, probably January 1946

A soldier in 1945, probably at Bougainville. Soldiers of Company E, 145th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division.

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Two soldiers collect water samples at the water treatment plant on Cape...

A couple of soldiers pose with indigenous Australians.

17.Photograph. U.S. serviceman jumping from rope swing into river. 'Our swimming hole (a river) we had to swim 50 yds...

Tractors and other heavy machinery used for road or runway construction. Attu, Aleutian Islands/Alaska. '"7-28-43. 258...

Oral History