The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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German soldiers inspecting a bombed mill on the Albert Canal on 2 September 1940. A barbed wire covered hedgehog is in...

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Large residential building, used as headquarters for the 9th Army in Germany.

Photograph. American soldier standing in roadway. ETO. No date

Air raid shelters in the streets of Paris, France. January 1945

Photograph. United States servicemen dancing with British women and police officers at Rainbow Corner in Piccadilly...

Photograph. Servicemen and vehicles with the U.S. Signal Corps lining the streets of a city after fighting ended,...

Photograph. Seven officers in various states of dress enjoying a bottle of wine. Location unknown. No date

German civilians ride home on top of a train car after the war has ended in 1945. "German civilians going home after...

An ox and a work horse pull a cart in Europe during WWII.

Photograph. John Janik sitting on the fender of his jeep. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Brachwitz, Germany. Me...

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

Three elegantly dressed young women seated around a garden table on an unknown date, possibly in Germany. "Looks kind...

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