The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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

Photograph. Two jeeps driving down a road. Personal caption on reverse: "General view of hwy. leading from Calas...

U.S. soldier reads a postcard while reclining in his bunk in postwar Germany.

Photograph. Blurry image of bodies of dead adults and children, including a small baby girl laid out on the ground...

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

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

Bomb damage to building facades, Berlin, Germany in April 1945. A Russian soldier directs traffic.

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

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

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

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

Oral History