The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Lt. Bernard J. Mertzweiller poses next to an 8.8 cm (88 mm) German Flak Gun on the French coast in 1945

Double exposed photograph showing soldiers and a train car in postwar Germany. Soldier is identified as Owens.

Photograph. US military medical tents pitched in a field in front of a forest. ETO. No date

A heavily bomb damaged church in London's East End in 1944. '"This is a blitzed church in the much beaten east end. A...

US soldier in jeep speaking with several Russian soldiers on sidewalk in April 1945 in Berlin, Germany.

An abandoned camp site with a dead animal, probably a ahorse, and oil barrel. "Igny, France." 1944-45

Two U.S. soldiers relaxing, having a smoke in postwar Germany. The soldier on the left has been identified as Forde.

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Military camp or barracks.

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Four unidentified US soldiers.

German soldiers line up for communion during a religious service with altar in woods on an unknown date at an unknown...

Officers of the 5th Armored Division. Col. Farrand, Chief of Staff during WWII.

Blurry image of three unidentified U.S. soldiers sitting in postwar Germany.

Oral History