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The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Digital Collections from The National WWII Museum

Explore Our Digital CollectionsIf you have not had the opportunity to explore our Digital Collection website yet, we hope that you will take the time to do so soon. This incredible site offers visitors a way to browse parts of our oral history and photograph collection from their own homes.

Since it was founded, the Museum has been dedicated to collecting and sharing the stories of the citizen soldiers and Home Front workers who served and sacrificed for our country during WWII. The digitization project, supported by key funders and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have helped the Museum achieve this goal by supporting innovative and unique ideas for access, description and navigation of our video oral history and photograph collections. The site currently offers access to 150 oral histories and over 5,000 photographs. Both types of collections can be searched, viewed, saved in a personal collection or licensed for use via the website.

Subjects of the photograph collections include:

  • Rare, color images from the Home Front and Europe

  • Training images that give a complete look into every aspect of amphibious training in southern California

  • The Ives collection of naval battles, one of most used collections based on its wide range of materials and high quality of images

  • Army nurse images that provide a view into the life of a woman overseas

  • Italian collections following the 5th Army from the beginning of the war in Italy to the end, offering stunning depictions of combat in that country and its people.

Featured Digital Artifact:

US nurses gardening in New Caledonia in 1944 – 45
From the service of Army Nurse Barbara Forrester, a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps who served predominantly on New Caledonia. Gift of Bob Harris, from the collection of The National WWII Museum.

Explore our Digital Collections.

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