The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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View of a village on the French countryside in 1945.

Photograph. American reinforcements and supplies land on the coast of France. Official caption on reverse: "2517 / From...

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

Russian soldiers pasting a large image of Truman on a monument in Potsdam, Germany in 1945. Other portraits are (from...

Photograph, cropped. Large group of British civilians standing in the street for a VE-Day parade. Cropped typed caption...

Heavily bomb-damaged buildings in postwar Germany.

Photograph. Two soldiers in undershirts, Rubin on the left, cook in a helmet in front of a tent. Location unknown. No...

"Part of a bivouac area for US troops at Bredelar, Germany where Germans had an engineer dump and stored all kinds of...

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

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

Photograph. Large European manor converted to Army hospital. ETO. No date

"Sent in Feb. 1 1943 letter from Iceland, Chaplain H.R. Megill." Chaplain Harold Megill at Camp MacArthur, Iceland in...

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