The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. Ruins of a bombed building. "What's left of one of the houses." ETO. No date

Officers' Quarters at Rosiers, France in 1945. "Home Sweet Home #3, Rosiers, France 5/01/45-5/28/45."

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

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

Photograph. Composer Irving Berlin shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; King George VI is standing on...

US Coast Guardsmen shuttling US soldiers to Normandy shore onboard an LCVP [Landing craft vehicle, personnel]. Official...

A group cavorting in the mountains, some wearing traditional Tyrolian costumes. Unknown date. See image 2008.374.030.

Damaged trains in a railyard in postwar Germany..

German forest with 8 inch Howitzers positioned within the trees. "Neuendorf, Germany." Circa 1945

Sunken boat in harbor. "Lerach, Germany."

Photograph. Rows of tents on a dirt field. Personal caption on reverse: "Calas staging area / Sept. 1945." Provence-...

The Neue Siegesallee on Groer Sternallee in the Tiergarten in postwar Berlin, Germany between 1945-1947.

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