The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Two US Marines shooting from foxhole behind crashed airplane pieces. Official caption:'"Firing at Jap [Japanese]...

Neptunus Rex, Crossing the Line ceremony aboard the USS Rutland; pollywog is being dumped from coffin into pool on deck...

"Business district near moat surrounding emperor's Palace, Tokyo." October 1945

Damaged ships, tanks and pill box entrances along beachfront. "Wreckage - Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "Close-up view of one of the 50 KW generators. These machines which have been...

View of a Marine cemetery on Iwo Jima, and the ocean beyond. "Marine cemetery. Iwo." Iwo Jima. 1945-46

Unloading a DUKW, an amphibious truck, off the USS Rutland and into the ocean after the successful attack on Okinawa in...

Japanese flamethrower fuel tanks are measured. "Captured Japanese flame throwers are analyzed for weapons comparison."...

Aerial view of unidentified coastline. Pacific Theater. 1945-46

Slide. Five Boeing B-29 Superfortress crew members gathered near a B-29. Isley Field, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...

39.Photograph. U.S. serviceman posing with native New Caledonian children. New Caledonia. 1944-45

Photograph. Four (4) female United Service Organizations [USO] performers standing between two Navy officers behind a...

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