The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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U.S. servicemen aboard a Navy vessel returning home after the war in 1945. "Going home."

Facade of the Adlon Hotel with mattresses and furniture piled on sidewalk in front, Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Photograph. American soldiers standing on docks next to a cargo ship with load of lumber. ETO. No date

Army Air Force serviceman sitting on a staircase; the Eiffel Tower can be seen in the distance behind him. 'Paris,...

Photograph. John Janik sitting on a motorcycle stopped in fron of a row of trucks. Unknown location. No date

Photograph, cropped. An American private leading a conga line of three British women down Davies Street; civilians are...

German soldiers, one a gefreiter, stand with a group of barefoot village children in white head scarves and peasant...

Photograph. American flag flying at half-mast in honor of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. American...

Emancipated corpses lined up in dirt; concentration camp prisoners. "Munuch, Germany." 1945

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin, Germany.

Photograph. Exterior of a large German estate house, probably being used for soldiers' quarters. Personal caption on...

"Saurbaer Kirka. Hvalfjargarstrond, Iceland. The grave of Hallgrimm Petersson is to right of church steps, as you face...

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