The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

Map is loading...

Photograph. Three American soldiers pose with arms over shoulders in front of the mess hall. Personal caption on photo...

Children pulling a cart in a city square in Alsace, France in 1945.

Blurry image of a soldier with the U.S. Army walking in front of military truck in postwar Germany.

Photograph. American servicemen wading towards a smoke-covered beach, as seen from the deck of a landing craft....

Buckingham Palace in London, England in 1944. "[6] This is a front view of Buckingham and it would be just short of...

Photograph. View of Big Ben and the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; Westminster Bridge is in the...

Photograph. German officer standing next to a German Junker transport aircraft and vehicle on a unidentified airfield....

Army Air Force serviceman James G. Piluk. The year "1945"'is typed on the front of the photograph. Europe. 1945.

German prisoners of war riding on American 2 1/2 ton CCKW truck; they are stuffed into the truck bed and one clings to...

A view of a muddy village road. Unknown date. Possibly in Ukraine.

The Reichstag after the Allied bombing of Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Oral History