The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Side. Small pile of skeletal remains next to a wood post that has Japanese characters written on it. Saipan. 1945

A Filipino souvenir shop. "Most of the Filipinos also were quick to take advantage of the fact that the Yanks were...

Slide. Trail leading towards a distant military camp; coastline is in the background. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...

7th Infantry Division soldiers walk past Japanese corpses. 'W-CPA-44-107-BF. 2/3. Weaver. A nest of Japs silenced...

An unknown village in the Pacific. "Native Village." Probably on New Guinea.

A view of a bridge built by the Japanese, out of lumber, over a river in New Britain. "Japanese built bridge in New...

Military cemetery at Darwin, Australia on 19 February 1942. The marker in the foreground reads: "W.E. McCord, USN." "...

"Wounded soldiers wait to be evacuated from Intramurals fighting." [1945]

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

US Marines standing in company formation in a U shape around a platform with an altar backed by a cloth with a US flag...

View of islands from starboard side of ship, probably of LST-933 [Landing Ship, Tank]. Pacific Theater. 1945-46

View from the side of the USS Rutland looking down onto U.S. Marine casualties in an LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle,...

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