The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Group of people in Tyrolian outfits or Tracht pose around man with an accordian in the mountains. Unknown date and...

Officers of the 5th Armored Division during WWII. Major Batey.

Trashed military vehicles piled on sides of streets. "Lerach, Germany." Probably Lrrach, Germany. Circa 1945

Photograph. U.S. servicemen looking at hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground...

Photograph. Two American soldiers stand with a German airplane in front of a hangar. Personal caption on photo reverse...

Children pulling a cart in a city square in Alsace, France in 1945.

Photograph. American soldiers debarking LCVPs [landing craft, vehicle, personal] and wading toward Normandy beaches....

Photograph. A group of American soldiers and civilians (photographers?) gathered under a tent. Location unknown. No date

German photograph of German soldiers standing over the bodies of dead Americans, searching them for equipment. "ETO-HQ-...

View of the Eiffel Tower. Probably during a sightseeing trip to Paris, France. Probably February/March 1945.

Sunken boat in harbor. "Lerach, Germany."

A "bridge over Rhine River at Bonn, Germany knocked out by a demolition crew." Bonn, Germany. 1945.

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