Post-War Destruction Scenes

Images documenting the aftermath of bombings, showcasing ruins and destruction in various locations following military actions.

Bridge-Busting Billy Mitchells Of The 340Th Bomb Group Made Direct Hits On The Bologna West Rail Bridge, Crossing The Reno River. This Ten-Span Masonry Bridge, Bombed On April 18 1945, Was On The Main Rimini-Bologna-Piacenza Line, Connecting With Milan.

Bomb Damage To Coastal Gun Emplacement At Cherbourg, France. 8 July 1944.

Scattered Over The Ground Like So Many Toothpicks, Heavy Iron Fuel Pipes Lay Where They Came To Rest After Being Blasted Into The Air By Bombing Of Douglas A-26 Invaders Of The 9Th Air Division In A Devastating Attack On The Deggendorf Oil Storage Depot,

Wewak Airdrome, Northeast...

The port at Tunis battered by the bombers of the Northwest African Air Force. Tunis, Tunisia.

Bomb bursts from Northwest...

Air Attack From The Aleutians -- How Many Japaneses Can You Find In This Picture Not In Their Best Samurai Postures, At Least 14 Enemy Defenders Of Paramushiru Can Be Seen Seeking A Dubious Cover In The Snow Of Kashiwabara Supply Dump, As Aleutian-Based Bomb

Bridge-Busting Billy Mitchells Of The 340Th Bomb Group Made Direct Hits On The Bologna West Rail Bridge, Crossing The Reno River. This Ten-Span Masonry Bridge, Bombed On April 18 1945, Was On The Main Rimini-Bologna-Piacenza Line, Connecting With Milan.

Recent raid on the Dagua airdrome in New Guinea by the Bomber Command of General Kenney's Fifth Air Force. The formation of North American B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers caught the Japaneseanese stationed here unawares and took a tremendous toll of Japanese

Through The Main Railroad Yards At Bologna Funnelled Traffic From France, Germanym The Balkans, As Well As From The Great Northern Industrial Areas Of Italy. Thus Bologna Was Always A Choice Target For Heavies Of The 15Th A.F. This Photo Shows How The Bol

As the Mar strip, near Cape Sansapor on the Dutch New Guinea Mainland, neared completion, gasoline storage and other facilities supplementary to operation of an airfield were constructed. Here, gasoline is pumped from a tanker, lying off shore, to

Damage Done At Passau Marshalling Yards In Passau, Germany By Bombers Of The 15Th Af. 15 June 1945.

A Northrop P-61 Black Widow On Iwo Jima, Attempted A Blind Landing In A Fog Aided By An/Mpn-1 Unit. Cross Wind Carried The Plane Off Line And It Landed On Top Of Another Northrop P-61, Finally Coming To A Stop As Shown.

The Steaming Mass Of Hot Lava Moves In On The Town Of San Sebastiano, Italy During The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.

Bomb Damage In Yokohama, Japan.

Devastation To The Strongly Defended Town Of Shuri, The Center Of Japaneseanese Resistance As The Allies Advanced Toward The City Of Naha, Okinawa. This Damage Was A Result Of Ceaseless Bombardment By Our Artillery, Mortars, And Aerial Bombings. The Nips Wer

FUNERAL PYRE--This was an air raid shelter which the Japanese permitted American prisoners of war to construct for their own use. A few weeks before our forces invaded Palawan, the Japs sounded a fake alert and then after the prisoners had taken

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"Are Dispersed At The Edge Of A Wheat Field At Molesworth, England. 11 September 1943.

The Night-And-Day, Round-The-Clock Air Offensive Of The RAF And Us 8Th Air force Destroyed Railroads, Bridges, Settling Basins, Power Houses, Turntables And Factories -- The Backbone Of The German'S Ability To Wage War -- This Low Level Oblique Aerial Photo Show

Blasts in walls, windows of repair shops indicate internal chaos. Roof concealed this in vertical picture. Ex-warehouse is at left.

Petersburg, Virginia. Federal picket line in front of Fort Mahone. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

GENERAL KENNEY'S AIRMEN, SO SORRY!------Parachute bombs, seemingly harmless, drift gently down on the roofs of the Japanese installations at Babo, Dutch New Guinea. Unfortunately the camera was unable to record, several seconds laster, the blinding

Same area immediately after the U.S. Army bombers had blasted Japanese installations at a former German mission station of the north coast of New Guinea.

The Recurring Newspaper Phrase '9Th Af Medium Bombers Disrupted Enemy Rail Communications' Is Illustrated By This Photo Of The Bad Munster Rail Bridge After An Attack By Martin B-26 Marauders Of Major General Samuel E. Anderson'S 9Th Bomb. Div. The Struc

Communication cables are laid in a ditch at Poltava Airbase, a shuttle bombing mission base in Russia. October 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India &ELECTRONICS,RADIO War

On Los Negros Island In The Admirality Islands, A Bomb Caroms Over A Japaneseanese Fighter That Probably Never Flew Again Anyway. Condition Of This Field Indicated That The Japaneses Weren'T Trying Hard To Keep It Up.

Another Obstacle Created By 9Th Af Bombers By The Destruction Of This Bypass, Near Valognes, France, Hinders Supplies And Men From Reaching The Fast Retreating German Armies.

A Douglas C-47 (A/C #315660) Of The 439Th Troop Carrier Group Burns After Crashing Into A Building Somewhere In France. 30 December 1944.

The Fuel Supplies In These Wrecked Tank Cars And Oil Storage Tanks At Deggendorf, Germany, Were Slated For Use By The Germans In A Last-Ditch Stand In The Southern Area Of 'National Redoubt'. A Highly Accurate Attack By Douglas A-26 Invaders Of The 9Th A

Bombing of Corregidor, Philippine Islands. Part of the invasion fleet and paratroopers landing can be seen in the background. February 1945.

The railroad yard at Buir, Germany through which supplies and reinforcements moved to enemy troops opposing the U.S. drive to the Rhine, after Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers dropped tons of high explosives among tracks and rolling stock.

Kuma class cruiser taking...

Supplies Are Unloaded At Haggi Hill Dump, Iceland, 6 August 1941.

Panorama Showing Ships, Parts Warehouse And Maintenance Sheds Of The 57Th Air Service Group. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, 1945.

The destruction of this viaduct, some distance from Valognes, France, by 9th Air Force Bomber hampered the movement of German armies in their retreat from the front lines.

Shell Fire Hit This Ammunition Dump On Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Following Explosions Knocked Out The Radar Unit And Set The Ration Dump On Fire. March 1945.

Radar Installations Established By Xix Tactical Air Command, Signal Section, Luxembourg, France, 25 January 1945.

HEADQUARTERS NINTH AIR force, ENGLAND: A SCENE FROM A BEACHHEAD. Protected by gun fire of Allied Naval Units from the sea, and an air umbrella by Allied Expeditionary Air force and balloon barrage close over head; this

View of cavalliere i.e., cavalier taken from Central Gap, Port Hudson, La.. Civil War Photograph Collection . Forts & fortifications, Union, Louisiana, Port Hudson, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, Union.

Argentan, France, marshalling yard shown in this "TAC/R" photograph, which was taken by 9th Air Force photographers, after repeated attack from Allied fighter-bombers. Motor column on road at upper right is one of the first American convoys to enter

Medium, attack, and fighter planes attacked enemy railway installations and motor columns today in southeastern Luzon, bringing their total score to 26 locomotives destroyed, 300 freight cars, and more than 400 vehicles. Photo shows smoking railroad

IGNOMINIOUS END to the Japaneseanese Aleutian and Alaska aims is symbolized by the "boneyard" of smashed "Rufe" (float Zero) fighter planes, near the beach on Kiska Island. Most of these planes never participated in an aerial mission against our forces

Field kitchen & Tommies resting

Plane 1 is a hole. Resulting from explosion of ten 500-lb GP bombs, with 1 second delay nose and 0.25 delay tail fuse. Bits of this plane were too small for evidence.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Fields & Installations,CONSTRUCTION,Air Fields War

Gasoline dump at the Marrekech Air Base in Morocco, North Africa. 23 March 1943.

General view of four Martin B-26s of the 319th Bomb Group at Biskra, Airdrome, North Africa, which were put out of commission by shrapnel after a night's bombing by four Junker 88s. 3 January 1943.

Members of the 28th...

Damaged Engines In The Marshalling Yards At Rosenheim, Germany. Bombed By The 15Th Af Bombers.

A 9Th Air Force Bomber Dropped A 500 Pound Bomb On The Left Wingtip Of This German Ju 88 Plane, Leaving The Hangar And Plane Of No Further Use To The Germans. Villacoublay, France. 1 September 1944.

Men Of The 379Th Bomb Group Examine The Wing Of A Boeing B-17 (A/C No. 633) Which Was Damaged During A Mission Over Enemy Territory On 29 January 1945. Note Damage To Elevator Of The Tail. England.

How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of 1St Tactical Air Force'S Medium And Fighter-Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By This Scene In The Main Rail Yards At Kaiserslautern, Germany, Where At Least Two

Officers Of A 401St Bomb Group Peer Into The Skies To Count Planes Returning From A Bombing Operation Over Enemy-Held Territory. The Officers Stand On The Catwalk Of A Control Tower Where They Are Able To Maintain Constant Radio Contact With The Planes.

A Scenic View Taken From The North End Of Libby Airdrome, With A 155Mm Artillery Battery In The Foreground. The Time Is 9:Am And Clouds Are Beginning To Cover The 9,620 Ft. High Mount Apo Volcano. The Artillery Commands Mount Apo Slopes And The Country

Personnel of the 6th Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) arrive for the early movie at the base theatre "Princessa Palace" at Puerto Princessa, Palawan, Island, Philippines. 9 June 1945.

Presentation of awards and decorations to American Flying Fortress personnel at an advanced U.S.A.A.F. flying field "Somewhere in North Africa." Scene was taken at one of the numerous airdromes that dot the flat valleys of Northern Algeria and

The North American P-51 Was Once An American Plane. Captured By The Japaneses, It Had The Emblem Of The Rising Sun Painted Over The American Star, Then The Plane Was Used For Purpose Of Deception. The Trick Was Not Successful As Can Be Seen By This Photograp

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Three Bladed Propellers Probably Taken From Nearby Japaneseanese Sef Plane In Southeast Corner Of Atsugi Airdrome, Japanesean. 5 September 1945.

Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses"Of The 401St Bomb Group On The Line At An 8Th Air Force Base In England, 12 January 1945.

This Pile Of Ruins Is All That Remains Of The Matford Factory In Strasbourg, Germany, After A 2 Minute Bombing By 53 Heavies Of The Us Army 8Th Air force. The Attack Stopped A Monthly Production Of 200 To 300 Airplane Engines.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,CAMOUFLAGE War

Off-shore log barricade on beach at Balikpapan, Borneo.

Construction Of 834Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Goes On Without Interruption As A Formation Of Lockheed P-38S Fly Over The Field At Furth, Germany.

Continued Attacks By The Us 8Th Air force On The Snythetic Oil Plant Of I.G. Farben Greatly Decreased Its Output. The Pre-Attack Monthly Production Was 9,000 Tons, Which By The Middle Of Dec. 1944, Was Reduced To 1,000 Tons Per Month. Since That Time, The RAF

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

250 pound General Purpose bomb, instantaneously fused, destroyed the boiler section of cracking plant on Serpoeleh Ridge, Balikpapan, Borneo. Person shown in the photograph is standing beside a crater in cement which was 6' x 4'. 12 August 1945.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Line of breastworks looking eastward | Library of Congress

Strip to be captured at Nadzab is shown before landing of 503rd Parachute Infantry.

Panorama Of Agana Filed On Guam, Marianas Islands Taken 5 November 1944.

Morris Island, South Carolina Ordnance depot. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment and supplies, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, South Carolina, Morris Island.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Damage Done At Passau Marshalling Yards In Passau, Germany By Bombers Of The 15Th Af. 15 June 1945.

Damage To The 7Th Air Force Installations On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto, Resulting From A Tropical Typhoon Left The A-2 (Intelligence), A-4 (Material Supply), Engineer, Finance, Public Relations And Officer's Mess Kitchen (Small Quonset) In A Complete Disorgan

Aerial View Of The Bielefeld- Herford Railroad Bridge After Bombing Attacks By The Us 8Th Air force And RAF. 10 May 1945.

Troops Of The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, 10Th Army, Establish Sleeping Quarters For The First Night On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Squadron Transferred From Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.

First Army Photos Of The Bombing Of Hickam Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Oil Fire Burning.

Manassas, Virginia. Fortifications. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Two Divisions Were Moved To China From Burma In Dec. 44 And Jan. 45, To Stop What Was Believed To Be A Japanese Drive On The Key City Of Kweiyang, China. The Air Movement Of 25,491 Chinese And American Soldiers, 1,596 Horses And Mules, 42 Jeeps, 48 75Mm Howit

Maintenance Of A Vultee L-5's At Cub Field No. 7 On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. The Plane Is Flown By The 163Rd Liaison Squadron, Attached To The 10Th Army. 1945.

Photo collection Deli Society. Photo album Deli Maatschappij: Company SAIT SEBERANG. Collection Photo collection Deli Society, photo number 828_15. 1930. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Landing at Hollandia in Humboldt Bay, New Guinea on 22 April 44. Tank rumbles inland to attack Japanese positions.

Construction of German combat aircraft. .

Headquarters, 17Th Ss Division G-2 Section At Peltre, France After Low-Level Strik By 405Th Fighter Group Xix Tac On 8 Nov 1944. The Fighters Came In So Low On Their Targets They Had To Pull Up Violently To Avoid Hitting Rooftops. Division Staff, Except

CAG Headquarters shown in this image is heavily damaged after a Viet Cong attack on January 7, 1968. The photograph was taken by Cpl E.J. Baggs and is part of the Defense Department's collection of images showcasing American military activities during the Vietnam War.

'Knocked Out' Trains, Supply Cars, And Warehouses Are All That Remain At The Railyards At Chalons, France, After Figher-Bombers Of The Mediterranean Allied Air Force Put Another Kink In The Hun'S Transportation And Supply System.

Damage to railway yards adjacent to Air Force General Depot #3, result of allied bombing.

Bomb Damage To St. Malo, France. 18 August 1944.

Dead horses and wrecked German vehicles littered the roads of the Rhone Valley of Southern France, after a series of Tactical Air Force fighter bomber attacks on retreating enemy columns.

Chinese Laborers Spread Crushed Rock On The Field Of The India China Wing Of Air Transport Command At Kunming, China. July 1943.

Men Of The 1878Th Engineer Aviation Battalion Build A B-29 Airstrip At Kandena Airfield On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1945.

The Japaneses didn't operate this 120 millimeter anti-aircraft gun long after the Balikpapan invasion started. Heavy bombers of the 13th AAF--veteran "Jungle Air Force"--knocked out this gun and almost 100 others of varying sizes. The 13th also

Day and night, men of the Seebee's 40th Construction Battalion labored to put the strip at Momote Airfield into condition to accommodate 13th Air Force fighters and bombers. Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 1944.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,WRECKS War

Carved from dense jungle, Mar Field, at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea, was ready for operational use by North American B-25 Mitchells on September 16, 1944. As soon as trees were cleared, ack-ack crews dub in along the runway.

One Of The First Army Photos Of The Bombing Of Hickam Field, T.H., Dec. 7, 1941. Fireman Preparing To Attempt To Extinguish Oil Flames At Hickam Field, Hawaii.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Addition to existing hard standing at operations tower taken from corner of existing hard standing of 21 degree runway at Garbutt Field, Townsville, Australia. 13 December 1943.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

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