The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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View from deck of US Navy vessel to two other American Liberty ships including the SS Andreas Honcharenko (2829)....

Filipino men roast a pig. "A close-up of one of the pigs being roasted shows how a pole is passed completely through...

Lieutenant General Keller Emrick Rockey, commander of the Fifth Marine Division, in the battle of Iwo Jima, speaking on...

"[Destruction of] Legislative building, Manila." February 1945

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A jeep parked in front of a building with a sign reading "Chemical Warfare", two...

A soldier in 1945, probably at Bougainville. Soldiers of Company E, 145th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division.

Aerial view of American runways on Saipan. "Fighter strip on Saipan." Probably 1945

Pollywog running through a line of 'Royal Police' shellbacks with painted helmets and ripped pants hitting him with...

Slide. American airman standing in front of the nose of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Hell's Belle" [tail code Z...

Young Japanese boys saluting camera as the Americans drive past a work site. From donor's notes: "The Japs [Japanese]...

Several pyramidal tents of the 740th Ordnance Company at camp on Cape Gloucester. "740th Ordnance Co. area, New Britain...

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