The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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"Jap [Japanese] medium tank burns after being hit by 43rd Div." [1945]

An LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel] gets twisted and sinks off the side of the USS Rutland during the invasion...

"Residential district of Nagasaki undamaged by 2nd Atomic bomb." 22 September 1945

53.Photograph. Driving over bridge. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Two Marines seated near a pile of US packs, shovels, and crates with initials KS on them; in the background a light...

When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Yukio Kawamoto's parents did not have to divulge too much about how their time in the camp went. Kawamoto had gotten a...

Paul Harless was assigned to the USS Potomac (AG-25) in Washington D.C. while he served with the Navy. He was visiting...

After eight weeks of boot camp, James Goodrich was sent to Camp Elliot. Camp Pendleton was not around at that time....

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was loaded onto a ship in the Philippines and headed towards the United States [...

Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

Herbert Yudenfriend left [Annotator's Note: from Manila, Luzon, Philippines on 23 September 1946] on the tail end of...

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