The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Photograph. A group of uniformed US Army nurses posing for a picture in a field. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Va...

Bombed out bank building and debris-cluttered street as part of "general scenes in Aachen, Germany after US troops...

Photograph. Blurry image of hundreds of bodies of dead concentration camp victims laid out on the ground inside...

Lt. Bernard J. Mertzweiller, right, poses next German bunker on the French coast in 1945

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

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

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

A view of the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line. "Seigfried [sic] line." Germany. 1944-1945

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

The Reichstag after the Allied bombing of Berlin, Germany in April 1945.

Sunken boat in harbor. "Lerach, Germany."

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