The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"View of Barrigada the village Guam."

Destroyed pillboxes on top of cliff, rubble surrounding them. "Pill boxes - Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Heavily damaged seaplane after Pearl Harbor attack. Official caption: "One of 80 US Navy planes destroyed. US Navy...

War Correspondent Ernie Pyle and Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey. Dempsey was a commander in the United States...

American radar map of Japanese islands. "C-18 21BC RSPM 10 4RD 17 (27 June 1945). 1. Osaki Hana. 2. Shimibara Kaiwan 3...

"P-47 and P-51 planes strike hills 511 and 512 for 32nd Div." [1945]

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Two soldiers collect water samples at the water treatment plant on Cape...

A US Marine walks towards a pile of twisted sheet metal and other debris; there are topless palm trees in the distance...

Shinto shrine on Tinian. "Japanese shrine on Tinian." Late 1945

Two American soldiers standing near rails, possibly looking in wallets, in front of train engine "[9]01" in the...

Soldiers inspect a B-24 Liberator at an unknown location in the Pacific during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

Oral History