The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Aerial view of Pearl Harbor from Japanese plane. Official caption: "Jap [Japanese] photograph of Pearl Harbor during...

View from ocean to coastline and American military base; Mount Suribachi on the right. "Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Five servicemen sit on the tail of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning at an unknown Pacific location during World War II....

Photograph. Four (4) female United Service Organizations [USO] performers standing between two Navy officers behind a...

Four two-masted small fishing boats anchored with mountains in the distance. "Luggers at rest on the bay at Moresby."...

Unidentified soldier smoking a pipe at a teletype/teleprinter machine. "Sitting at a telegraphic - receiving...

Slide. Aerial view of multiple naval vessels underway. Pacific Ocean. 1945

Slide. Residential building on a military base. Hawaii. 1945

Narrow gauge railway and man on a draisine in Alaskan landscape. "24"'gauge tacks on runway."' East Arm of Holtz Bay...

Christmas tree inside the Riverside Inn, an American Red Cross club on Tinian; U.S. servicemen are reading newspapers...

US M4A1 Deep Wading Sherman tanks #19 ("Lighting") and #13--with exhaust extensions--and soldiers. "U.S. tanks in...

Slide. Three airmen standing near the edge of a cliff covered in vegetation. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

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