The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Slide. Blurry. Several airmen in the back of an open transportation truck. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana...

Group portrait of Third Division aboard the USS Rutland. From donor's notes: "Third Division." Circa Late April - Early...

Nose art of the B-25 The Wild Indian at an unknown location. "B-25" Probably on New Guinea.

32nd Infantry Regiment soldiers with a 20mm antiaircraft gun near Massacre Bay. "20mm [illegible] south of Massacre Bay...

"File No: W-ES- 126-42985. Released: September 14, 1943. U.S. Salvages Sunken Jap Destroyer - With the Navy's famed...

Two unidentified US servicemen walking along a Pacific beach after swimming. "Guam." Guam. 1944-45

Aerial view of Philippine landscape. 194-

American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.

Sign reads "All of these Geisha girls have a venereal disease of some sort. Be sure to take a pro." Probably Tokyo,...

Slide. Aerial view of a coastal tip. Japan. 1945

A horse drawn carriage waiting for a customer. "'Nuf said. Taxi, Manila." Manila, Philippines. 1945

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