The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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

Photograph. American LVTs [Landing Vehicle, Tracked] unloading from USS LST-787 in open ocean. Official caption on...

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Elements of the 40th Infantry Division heading to shore in LCVPs [Landing Craft...

American PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat cruising in water during training for invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord)....

Photograph of 5th Marine Division cemetery with image of Marines invading beaches in sky. Official caption:'"Montage of...

1109. '3-29-44. Allen. (L to R) Maj. W. D. Smith, Lt. Col. Robert Quakenbush, Maj. Joseph Schultz of 81st Div. General...

When orders came about a month after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Robert "Bob" Lowry and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-538] finally got beached and dropped out of the convoy [...

Thomas D. Thompson was observing a dogfight between a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Jack Vandervort was sent to basic training again. [Annotator's Note: Lawton discusses the reasons in the clip titled "...

Going into this invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] was not...

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