The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Lt. Bernard J. Mertzweiller, right, poses next German bunker on the French coast in 1945. "On French Coast trip 1945."

Bomb damage to large, columned building, Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Photograph. German civilian men using a litter to move bodies of concentration camp victims laid out on the ground in...

U.S. soldier in HBT coveralls in railroad yard in postwar Germany..

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. "Staff having meal in German castle."

View looking down unto B-25 Mitchell bombers in flight; below them, unidentified river and farmland of Europe. ETO....

Thomas 'Tom' Blakey, on left with Thompson submachine gun slung over shoulder, and Tactical Sergeant Barney Major in...

Officers of the 5th Armored Division on 8 October 1944 in France. MacFarland with other officers. "In the field...

American soldiers in snowy forest. "Luneville, France." Circa 1944

Photograph. Unidentified cityscape with beach and palms in 1944 or 1945.

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

Outside residential area in France in 1945. Possibly a Citron bus on far right.

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