The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Caterpillar bulldozer towing jeep and trailer onto shore. On LVT [Landing vehicle, tracked] sits on shoreline behind...

View from deck of US Navy vessel looking out to sea at another large, possibly transport vessel, in distance. Pacific...

Slide. Shirtless American airman standing outside in front of a building. Hawaii. 1945

Red Cross worker Norma Force and unidentified serviceman posing for photograph; trash cans are piled up behind them....

Six soldiers rigging skids for towing a P-39 airplane being lifted by a wrecker truck during retrieval operation in the...

Unidentified vessel off Pacific island coastline. Guam (probably). 1945-46

"Jap torpedoes captured at Nichels Field." 15 February 1945

American military prison/stockade on Tinian; sign in front reads 'Island Command Stockade.' Building looks to be...

"33rd Div chow line on road, La Union, Luzon." 8 April 1945

"LCVP (landing craft vehicle personnel) takes a load of soldiers to Lingayen Gulf Beach. [1945]

US serviceman climbing on bow of wrecked, probably Japanese, unidentified ship. "Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Unidentified barefoot sailor cleaning the deck of the USS Rutland with a hose. From donor's notes: "A clean washdown."...

Oral History