The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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5th Armored Division in Germany in 1945. Military trucks camouflaged with reeds and grass along country road.

3rd Armored Division soldiers walk through heavily bomb and fire damaged city of Cologne, cathedral spires in distance...

Two U.S. Army soldiers climbing on a structure in postwar Germany. Possibly climbing on a monument or sculpture.

Cleaning up rubble in postwar Berlin, Germany. Possibly some Trmmerfrauen or a Trmmerfrau at work.

Photograph. Servicemen standing next to the main gate of a French medieval fortress. Official caption on front: "Fort...

Photograph. Two GIs standing in fron of a lilac hedge. Personal caption on photo reverse: "T/4 Donald Shrieber Radio...

View of plowed farmlands in the French countryside in 1945.

Army Air Force servicemen pose in front of a 40mm Bofors gun in a fortified bunker. James Piluk is third from the left...

Damaged buildings and rubble in postwar Germany.

Photograph. Several small groups of men sitting and standing in an open, dirt field. Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

"Hut flag organs chaplain, Iceland." A Nissen hut is in the background.

Photograph. Neal stands outside in the Belgian forest. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Taken in Feb. 45 / Spa,...

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