The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Earl O'Neil (standing) and Louis Vratil (crouching) in New Guinea in 1942. "Myself and Louis Vratil from Kansas."

Aerial view of unidentified bomb-damaged Japanese town below; some areas still burning. Japan. Late 1945

Aerial view of native village on unidentified Pacific island; probably rebuilt by U.S. Government.'Guam (probably)....

Slide. Tops of trees under the sky at sunset. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Soldiers of the 40th Infantry Division watch as a dump truck pours large rocks over a makeshift road. "Road building by...

42.Photograph. Collapsed tents, probably after hurricane. New Caledonia. 1944-45

View of the Officers' Beach near Agat, Guam in 1945. "Officers Beach near Agat, Guam."

"Interactions between Japanese Civilians and U.S. Army personnel." September 1945

Two servicemen pose with some bananas and a fellow soldier in the Pacific during World War II. Probably on New Guinea.

Locals of Guam, possibly family with older woman and infants. "Locals - Guam." Guam. 1944-45

Remains of Japanese aircraft at an unknown location. "Nip planes that will fly no more." Probably on New Guinea.

Aerial view of rubble and devastation after atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. "Nagasaki after the atomic bomb." Nagasaki...

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