The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Group portrait of African-American sailors aboard the USS Rutland in May 1945. From donor's notes: "Stewards and...

American light cruiser's scout plane, an SO3 Curtiss Seamew, leaving the catapult during shakedown. "2098 - 135 photos...

86.Photograph. U.S. nurses in bathing suits posing with U.S. Navy sailor. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Locals of Guam, possibly family with older woman and infants. "Locals - Guam." Guam. 1944-45

Marines unload supplies from LSM-201 [Landing Ship Medium] and LST-807 [Landing Ship, Tank] at beach at Iwo Jima;...

View from airplane flying over Pacific Ocean in 1945. "Front."

Three-section Bridge with wood fence in foreground, probably Alaska c.1943.

Slide. Large pile of full cloth sacks piled outside of a hut. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

USS Iowa. "59494 October 26, 1944 Wash Day for the Big 'I'--- Bucket brigades swab off the decks of the giant USS Iowa...

Nose art for the B-24. "Heaven Can Wait." Probably on New Guinea.

Interior of large, elaborate, thatched grass constructed Christian church. "Chapel on Sterling Island. 1944."' Sterling...

Aerial view of rubble and devastation after atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. "Nagasaki after the atomic bomb." Nagasaki...

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