The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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LVTs [Landing Vehicle Tracked] or amphibious tanks unloading into ocean from LST-787 [Landing Ship, Tank]. LST-787 has...

Photograph. Children and dignitaries hold wreaths and flowers to honor the deceased at a D-Day memorial. France. 1945

Aerial view of landing craft invading Iwo Jima. Official caption:'"Landing boats off Iwo on D-Day. US Navy Photo 122-20...

Photograph. American barrage balloons flying over LSTs underway. Official caption on front: "D-Day at Normandy. US Navy...

Photograph, aerial. Waves of American landing craft cruising toward coastline; Mount Suribachi is in the distant...

A C-47 transport aircraft named "Peaches from Mobile", the airplane that dropped Thomas 'Tom' Blakey into Normandy on D...

Photograph. American troops from the 45th Infantry Division exiting LCI(L)-522 and storming a beach near St. Maxime on...

Photograph. US color guard flag-raising ceremony. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-7039." Official caption on...

Photograph. US color guard flag-raising ceremony. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-7039." Official caption on...

Photograph. US troops wade through chest-deep water during an amphibious invasion. Official caption on front: "7/MM-44-...

Photograph. United States Army soldiers marching towards a burning Japanese gas dump hit by a US Navy artillery shell....

Photograph. LVTs [Landing Vehicle, Tracked] driving from a landing craft onto a war-damaged beach; debris in foreground...

Oral History