The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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American machine gunners fire down a street in Aachen. "ETO-HQ-44-17895. Witscher. Machine gunners firing from bomb...

Five soldiers stand atop a bunker in Maastricht, Netherlands in May 1941. The soldier second from the left is wearing...

5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Motor boat on river.

Several German soldiers lying down in meadow; one soldier standing. Personal Caption: "[Illegible]. Juli 1940."...

American soldiers with camouflaged military truck in forest. "Hirechland, France." Hirschland, France. Circa 1944

Group portrait of artillery troops with sandbags in Europe. "Number 2 gun section." Circa 1944

Photograph. A group of African American soldiers behind barbed wire. Location unknown. No date

U.S. soldier reads a postcard while reclining in his bunk in postwar Germany.

Rubble in the city streets of Nuremberg, Germany in 1945. "Nuremberg."

"Dragon's teeth along German-Belgium border, the start of the Siegfried Line on the road to Aachen via Kornelimunster...

American soldiers playfully pose inside and on top of railroad gun. ETO. No date

480.Photograph. 'File Number: 231248 June 12, 1944 The Objective Like a low-hanging bank of fog, the French coast can...

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