The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Slide. View of the ocean between a beach and Bird Island. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. 1945

Destroyed pillboxes, rubble surrounding them. "Pill boxes - Iwo Jima." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

U.S. Marines unloading K ration boxes aboard the USS Rutland; probably off of Saipan in February 1945. Boxes are marked...

Filipino people walk down a decorated street "Here is another Filipino street scene. This time we see the street...

Biak. "File No: 256602 October 26, 1944 'Beating Out' Boredom-- Despite the incessant activity, monotony sometimes...

Aerial view of the mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb. "This is the smoke column caused by the explosion of the second...

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Several ships move through the water during amphibious training exercises with...

Soldiers in front of Northern Commercial Co. post office, unidentified location in Alaska c.1943.

Civilian refugees (probably the Chamorro/Chamoru people) from Tinian aboard a U.S. Navy LCT [Landing Craft, Tank]. Some...

Locals on an outrigger sailboat in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

Traditional Filipino horse cart called a "karomata." From donor's notes: "Carameta pony and cart." Circa June 1945

111.Photograph. View from hill looking down onto U.S. hospital wards. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Oral History