Historical War Footage

Black and white images capture intense wartime moments, including aircraft attacks, firefighting efforts aboard naval ships, and destructive raids, showcasing historic military actions.

The Desert Battlefield - Inglorious end of a German tank. A falls directly on to a tank of a German *****. August 29, 1942.

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Flaming Jap Plane Plunges in Pacific set ablaze by anti-aircraft fire from a U.S. Essex class carrier, this Jap Bomber leaves a trail of smoke and flame as it plungs toward the Pacific off Kyushu. An Iowa class battleship (right) and a destroyer, part of a U.S. Task Force, are at bottom. May 14, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Smoke rises from burning aircraft after a raid by RAF bombers on the German-held landing ground at Berka, Libya.

Extension course Rohatyn. Flame width of smoke cloud after prolonged activity. .

The Desert Battlefield - Inglorious end of a German tank. A falls directly on to a tank of a German *****. August 29, 1942.

As huge clouds of smoke billow up from the target, more bombs fall to add to the destruction at the Astra Romano Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania during a mission on July 28, 1944 by planes of the 483rd Bombardment Group, 815th Bombardment Squadron

January 18, 1949, a unit of the People's Liberation Army on the front line of Zhejiang, with the close cooperation of the navy and air force, crossed the sea to fight, liberating the entrenched Chiang Kai-shek army. Jiangshan Island.

The Spanish Goat. Tanker ***** sunk off the coast of Spain by a *****. August 27, 1937.

Flaming Death Of U.S. War Plane -- Three dead crew members of a U.S. B-24 Liberator lie next to the blazing wreckage of their bomber somewhere in France. A column of black smoke marks the funeral pyre of, one of the thousands., of American planes supporting the Allied ground offensive against the Germans in Western Europe. January 19, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War Rocket tracing experiment

Service Group Firemen And Other Air Force Personnel Battle Fire Engulfing This Republic P-47 'Thunderbolt' Of The 464Th Fighter Squadron, 507Th Fighter Group. The Pilot Of The Plane Mistook A Taxiway For A Runway And Crashed When He Came In For A Landing

03/01/1945. A Japanese oil refinery burns as a result of an air attack carried out by British aircraft against facilities on the island of Sumatra.

Here Is Evidence Of The Flaming Destruction Caused By The Aerial Flamethrower. Republic P-47'S Of The 57Th Fighter Group Hurled Their Tanks Into The Midst Of A German Assembly Area At Pavulla, Italy On The Fifth Army Front And Started At Least Four Great

British Defense Against Low Altitude Planes -- Smoke and flames rocket skyward from a flame-thrower developed by British petroleum warfare department for use in ships as defense against low-flying German aircraft attacking allied shipping in English Channel and off the east coast of Britain during 1940 and 1941. British also installed similar flame-throwers around Airfields. This is a British Official Photo. March 6, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Radiophoto).

Smoke rises thousands of feet from fires resulting from a recent bombing attack over Manokwari, Japanese-held base on the northern coast of New Guinea. May 28, 1943. (Photo by U.S. Army Air Corps Photo).

The fire at Värtan July 24, 1921.

Tidal Wave -- Fire sweeps through Shingu Wakayama Prefecture, southern Japan, after the devastating ***** and tidal wave, Dec. 21. Residents of the small seacoast ***** crowd the beach (foreground) with what possessions they were ***** save.Fire sweeps through Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture, southern Japan, after the devastating earthquake and tidal wave on December 21. In the foreground, residents of the town, crowd to the beach with what possessions they were able to save. December 01, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Allied Big Gun At Work Near Cassino -- As the smoke wreath of a previous shot clears away a heavy gun of the Allied fifth Army is fired again during artillery action against. German positions near Cassino; Italy, Allied heavy artillery continually hammered enemy supply dumps and communication centers in the campaign along the road toward Rome. March 23, 1944.

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Russian incendiary bombs spread fire and flame in Finnish town - A striking picture, just received in London today, Feb 9, of buildings in the town of Vaasa, on the western coast of Finland, burning furiously after Russian planes had dropped a number of incendiary bombs on this spot. The inhabitants, lucky to escape with their lives, were just forced to watch their property disappear before their eyes in flame and smoke as Russia continued her ***** against defenceless civilians. February 27, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Smoke Pall Of China War.This Drmatic Picture made from the Air Shows A Huge smoke colouring rising from fiercely burning buildings in a part of Chapel, a part of Shanghai, after sino Japanese fighting there. October 25, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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Hughes Plane Smoulders Amid Wreck ***** leaps from the wreakage of Howard Hughes' XF-11 photographic ***** plane and the house into which it crashed late today, brining ***** critical injuries to the millionaire sportsman who was flying it ***** July 7, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Wirephoto).;Hughes Plane Smoulders Amid Wreck ***** leaps from the wreakage of Howard Hughes' XF-11 photographic ***** plane and the house into which it crashed late today, brining ***** critical injuries to the m

Black and White photograph of the bombing of London during the Battle of Britain in World War II (1939-1945); a factory ablaze in a London suburb after a German raid.

Extension course Rohatyn. Flame beam of the small flame thrower. .

August 29, 1943: Boeing B-17 afire, caused while testing new carburetor. Aug. 29, 1943 B-17 afire, caused while testing new carburetor on #4 engine. Mechanics & fire crews ofught fire for 1 hour, but were unable to get it under control. A 3,000 lb.

Desborough Mort Pty. Ltd. Fire - September-1935. September 26, 1935.

Smoke and debris rise a thousand feet into the air from the dock and harbor installations at Reggio, Italy, typifying the paralyzing blows being delivered today by American bombers. New attack technique of the United Nations is invasion by air, which

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Escort Vessel Hit By R.A.F. Rockets - Off French Biscay Coat -- A Beaufighter going in to attack. Two rockets have just left the aircraft and are streaking towards the ship.Rocket firing Beaufighters of R.A.F. Coastal Command, led by Wing Commander A. Gadd, D.F.C., of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, carried out a devastating dusk attack on a Sans Souci escort vessel in the harbour of Les Sables D'Clonne on the French Biscay Coast. While the Allied Armies are closing in on the enemy ships trying to carry badly needed supplies. August 11, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Waalhaven, 10 May 1940 with burning and landing JU-52s.

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USS Bunker Hill By Japs -- Smoke Billow from the USS Bunker Hill, an aircraft carrier, which was hit twice within Thirty seconds by two Japanese suicide planes while operating with a Task Force in the "slot" between Okinawa and Kyushu with 392 dead or messing and 264 wounded after the attack May 11, the crew Fought Fire and exploding ammunition to bring the ship to a West Coast Yard for repairs. June 21, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Havocs over a Belgian railway yard spell H-A-V-O-C for Hitler's battered transport system. Three of the Ninth Air force's Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers are shown leaving the Aershot rail center, thirty miles northeast of Brussels, after a recent

The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945 Air Force Operations: Bristol Blenheim aircraft attack a Japanese column on the lower Chindwin river.

U.S. soldiers in training with live explosives. Ca. 1941-43. World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_10_157)

09/30/1926. Tombridge (England). A Catastrophe. Remains of the French Goliath airplane that fell on fire, and in which the Pilot, the Mechanic and five Passengers Perished.

Battle on the Russian Eastern Front. August 1943

A Chemical Plant Sprayed Its White Glow In The Air As Consolidated B-24 Liberators Of The 15Th Air Force, Wiped Out Both Plane And Oil Installations In Sete, France, On 26 June 1944. The Nazi Supply Point Was Completely Destroyed By The "Liberators" Who

Fight Flame To Save Bunker Hill -- Crewmen pour water on flames erupting from an after elevator of the Aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill which was the victim of two crash dives by Jap suicide pilots during operations with a task force in the "Slots" between Okinawa and Kyushu, May 11. Ranking as one of the War's Major surviving casualties, the USS Bunker Hill made her way to a West Coasted Yard for repairs. June 21, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

View Of Airbase In England Showing Destruction Caused By The Explosion Of 500 Pound General Purpose Bombs While Being Loaded Into A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress". 28 May 1943, England.

La Palma (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), July 1949. Eruption of the San Juan Volcano, located in Las Mantas.

Hydrogen Blast Cloud Soars Over Pacific -- The cloud formation following the test Hydrogen explosion in the Pacific in the fall of 1952 rises and spreads as it develops toward its the greatest size -- 25 miles high and 100 miles across. The explosion destroyed the test Island and left a crater sloping down to a depth of 175 feet. March 31, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Sixth Fleet During Invasion of Iwo Jima. Mt. Suribachi in the background. 14 Feb 1945. U.S. Navy

Aerial photograph, taken by a Japanese pilot, of the surprise aerial strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. A Japanese bomber is visible in the lower right foreground, Pearl Harbor, HI, 1956 print from 12/7/1941 original photo. (Photo by New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress/GG Vintage Images)

Modern warfare's weapons - A tank throwing flame as ***** goes into "action" during a demonstrating by the Italian army ***** Rome. June 08, 1940.

Jap Damage at MidwaySmoke rises from a fire set by a Jap dive bomber that raided Midway in early June. Building in foreground was shattered by the carrier,based planes that took part in the same assault. A "Badly outnumbered" force of Marine Corps fighting planes engaged the Jap planes and with the aid of ground fire destroyed more than 40 of the attacking planes. The Jap raid caused serious but "Not disabling" damage. September 07, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Atomic bomb. A mushroom cloud rises more than 20,000 feet into the air over Hiroshima, Japan after an atomic bomb was dropped by the US bomber 'Enola Gay', Aug. 5, 1945

Texas City Fire Aerial.

Storm Troop Exercises (Flamether) in Vladimir Wolinsky.

German officer of an assault troop Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Smoke from a burning oil well blows across the horizon during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Pearl Harbor: Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the U.S.S. California is evacuated as sailors and soldiers look on, December 7, 1941

Direct hit on a position Probably near Brody, East Galicia; photographer: Sladek.

USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikaze pilots, during the Battle of Okinawa, Japan 1945

Vintage photograph. Fogging operation to control blackflies in a central Adirondacks region

Photograph showing the upheaval of earth and debris as a land-mine explodes. A frequent characteristic of siege warfare, the landmine could destroy huge section of trenches - and their occupants - in seconds. Date: February 13th 1915

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Aerial recording. Dark clouds. Burning oil installations?. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The entire weight of the attack fell on the refinery and adjoining dock area-causing serious damage.-Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

This Japanese "Topsy," type MC-20 transport, was the only plane on strip at Selaroe Island (N.E.I.) when on 22 July 1944 three RAAF Beaufighters strafed the strip, killing six Japaneses and destroying "Topsy."

'Combat Aerien; La Guerre Aerienne sur le front Britannique; Bombardement de nuit a l'arriere des lignes allemandes; attaque, a la bombe et a la mitrailleuse, d'un chemin de fer a voie etroite', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Vietnamese Guerrillas operating on the track of the Vietming forces Signaling their position by rockets. April 01, 1954.;Vietnamese Guerrillas operating on the track of the Vietming forces Signaling their position by rockets

Blockships in Zeebrugge Harbour, 1918 - Attempt by the Royal Navy to block the harbours of Ostend and Zeebrugge

Saving The Pilot - The aircraft is ablaze, the 'pilot' is unable to extricate himself, but men of the Royal Naval Air Station Anthorn come to his rescue. The 'pilot' is only a dummy, but the naval airmen who performed the task at a demonstration at the School of Aircraft Handling, Gosport, Hampshire (known in the Royal Navy as HMS Siskin), showed how valuable lives can be saved. June 28, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Crash landing of F6F on flight deck of USS ENTERPRISE while enroute to attack Makin Island. Lieutenant Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambering up the side of the plane to assist pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit during World War II

Grenade impact, storm course exercise Shabs. .

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Buitenzorg July 24, 1947. A Patrouille Dutch soldiers runs over a railroad route. For them from pushing Indonesians a train wagon. On the right a burned out railway station. There are still burning. 24 July 1947. Bogor, Buitenzorg, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photograph showing waves of Consolidated B-24 liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the target area, the Concordia Vega Oil refinery, Romania. Dated 1944

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Oil fires Palembang (reproductions). Palembang: Through the TNI Tentara Nasional Indonesia, four wells on the oil fields of Pendopo became a grateful prey for the fire. The damage remained important below the estimate when it turned out that the fires were found to be on the edge of the site. One of the burning wells. July 28, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Bombs from B.P.F. Avengers bursting on Sakishima. July 02, 1945. (Photo by Royal Naval Official Photo).

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USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, T.H. December 7, 1941.

Illustration showing 'Thunderbolts' and 'Lightning' of the US Air Force attacking a column of German vehicles attempting to escape from the 'Falaise Pocket', France, August 1944. The German Fifth Army and Seventh Panzer Army were encircled by Allied forces in the early part of August, then dealt a serious defeat as they attempted to escape. This illustration was drawn by the Illustrated London News artist, Captain Bryan de Grineau, was in France with the US Ninth Air Force at the time.

Exercise bombing of rail near Knabbarp.

Dunkirk - France. July 18, 1940. (Photo by London News Agency Photo).

Aerial photograph, taken from the interior of a Royal Air Force 'Blenheim' bomber, showing bombs dropping towards Knapsack power station, near Cologne in Germany, 12th August 1941. Date: 1941

U.S. Troops take cover behind advancing tanks while moving up on Japanese positions. March 18, 1945. Pansy Island, Philippines, World War 2.. (BSLOC_2014_10_111)

U.S. Flying Fortresses Strike At Home Of Nazi Pictures What at first glance appears to be several avenues of trees extending along the right of this picture from bottom to top are puffs from bombs that have just plowed furrows across the landing area of this important Nazi Fighter base at ***** near Amiens, in German-occupied France. The picture was taken from one of the fortresses that hit this target on August 15th, 1943. While other formations attacked enemy fighter airdromes at ***** Poix, V

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Waterside Fires - Fires/Firemen. August 14, 1944.

Operation Pedestal, August 1942 11 August: The loss of HMS EAGLE and the first air attacks: A general view of the convoy under air attack showing the intense anti-aircraft barrage put up by the escorts. The battleship HMS RODNEY is on the left and the cruiser HMS MANCHESTER on the right.

Caption of this official wartime picture says "The burning Peary in Darwin Harbour." Is this where the destroyer lies Diver Atkinson says: "No." May 18, 1953.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Hollandia. Explosion or fire. February 1947. Hollandia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Salatiga. In the night of 18 September, despite monitoring, subversive elements in the center of Salatiga found fire. The burning houses. September 18, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Exercise with a flameper.

Anefo photo collection. Fikkie of a hundred car tires in Osdorp. July 26, 1966. Osdorp

In the so-called 'tank nabrigation' a combat tank of the Centurion MK 3 type with smoke and jumping means is disappointed.

Anefo photo collection. Military demonstrations in The Hague i.v.m. 60th anniversary of the O. O. Verg. "Our interest". 10 June 1958. The Hague, South Holland

The Mulberry Harbour An aerial view of the pierhead and breakwater at the artificial 'Mulberry Harbour' at Arromanches.

Fires in the Docks. This image depicts fires in a dock area about 24 hours after the explosion of the Grandcamp.

May 1945 -- Heavy Black Smoke Rises From A German Gasoline Dump Near A Jet Plane Base, Operating Near Nauhoff, Germany. Picture Made From 9Th Af Plane.

The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) was the first great war of the 20th century which grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. As time transpired, these victories would transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage. The embarrassing string of defeats inflamed the Russian people's dissatisfaction with their inefficient and corrupt Tsarist government, and proved a major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Pedro Miguel/Locks - Smoke Screen Tests, Aerial Photograph.

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