The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Indoor kitchen with cooks

Photograph. American soldiers pose for a picture on top of a captured German gun on a flatbed train car. Personal...

German photograph of two German infantrymen approaching a burning vehicle. "ETO-HQ-44-30459-19. Captured German film....

Photograph. LCI(L)-85 sinking off the coast of Omaha Beach; several ships are in the distant background. Official...

Photograph. Bob Hope sitting between servicewomen at the Royal Albert Hall. London, England. 1945

Residential homes along canal in Alsace, France in 1945.

Damaged trains in a railyard in postwar Germany..

Photograph. Four American soldiers on top of a tank with 3-story white building in background. Possibly Camp Kilmer,...

German civilians walk along a town road in the 1940s. "Sunday''go to meeting' clothes."

Photograph. American soldiers pose with a captured railroad gun. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Railroad gun." ETO...

A "trench dug by Germans at rear of castle show in no. 18." Duisdorf, Bonn, Germany. 1945.

Photograph. Emaciated corpses of Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners; wreaths are hanging in the background....

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