War Damaged Buildings

Historic photographs showing the aftermath of bombing raids during World War I and II, highlighting rubble, destruction, and rebuilding efforts in urban settings.

On the night of the 31st January 1916, Zeppelins of the German Navy attacked the Midlands causing extensive damage. Air raid sirens were used for the first time to warn the civilian population of the incoming aerial attack. Police ensured that a black-out was in place. Workmen stand in the rubble. Date: 1916

On the night of the 31st January 1916, Zeppelins of the German Navy attacked the Midlands causing extensive damage. Air raid sirens were used for the first time to warn the civilian population of the incoming aerial attack. Police ensured that a black-out was in place. Workmen stand in the rubble. Date: 1916

Photo collection Government information service. Bombardment Rotterdam. Environment St. Laurenskerk. May 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

The street Bellon, Senlis. World War I 1917

Yank Wacs Watch German Women Clear Berlin Rubble -- Pfc Doris Gedney, (Dept) 62 Fordway avenue, Derry, N.H., and Cpl. Ann G. Burke, (second from left) 221 South Wilbur Avenue, Syracuse, N.Y., watch German women clearing rubble form wreckage left form Allied bombing in Berlin. The service girls are member of first WAC unit assigned to the German capital. July 12, 1945. (Photo by Henry L. Griffin, AP Wirephoto).

05/31/1937. Houses Destroyed by Aviation.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venray. Volumpens VENRAY. 1945. Limburg, Venray

Sabotage At Grenoble -- Smashed Artillery, after the first explosion in the Grenoble Artillery Park.In a speech made to the consultative Assembly, on March 2nd, 1944, Mr. Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, Commissar for the Interior, in the French Committee for National Liberation said: "During the last months of the year (1943), without ***** Grenoble has won the first piece in French resistance. ***** Sabotage of the Artillery Park at Grenoble on the night of the 13 *****, was the high spot of the resistance movement in that ***** November. March 17, 1944. (Photo by Fox Photos).

March 1937. Houses in a town in Guadalajara, after the passage of the German Trimotors.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Arnhem. Destroyed street. June 1945. Arnhem

The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on September 8, 1900, in the city of Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It was the deadliest hurricane in US history. The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. The hurricane occurred before the practice of assigning official code names to tropical storms was instituted, and thus it is commonly referred to under a variety of descriptive names. Typical names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and, e

Elsevier photo collection. British bombing on Rotterdam on March 31, 1943. Destroyed workers' district. April 1, 1943. Rotterdam, South Holland

Photograph of men searching the ruins of the Serai in Jaffa for the dead.

Photo collection Government information service. Bombardment Rotterdam. May 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

The Fall of Old Newgate. November 14, 1933.

Young Chinese refugee after an air raid during WWII.

The Volkswagen Factory At Fallersleben, Germany, Producing The V-1 Flying Bomb, Was At Complete Halt In Production Following Allied Attacks. Here, Combat Engineers Of The Us Army, Salvage Steel To Be Used In The Buidling Of Bridges For Allied Armies. 19

Road Building In War-Torn Caen -- Amid a scene of utter desolation a bulldozer is seen clearing a path through the masses of debris which once was a section of the Normandy town of Caen, captured by British and Canadian Troops. September 11, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Damage made by the bombs of a zeppelin. Rue du Borrégo. Damage made by the bombs of a zeppelin on the house of Brigadier Ridault, rue du Borrégo, 20th arrondissement, Paris, on the night of January 29, 1916 Anonymous. Damage made by the bombs of a zeppelin. Rue du Borrégo. Damage made by the bombs of a zeppelin on the house of Brigadier Ridault, rue du Borrégo, 20th arrondissement, Paris, on the night of January 29, 1916. Drawing with gelatin bromide of silver. January 29, 1916-29 January 1916.

12/31/1909. Another town in Zamora, Abrareces de Tera, Destroyed by Floods.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

07/31/1913. The War in the Balkans. Ruins at Serres Market, Destroyed by Bulgarian Soldiers.

In a German town in 1945 a woman flees after explosions rock the buildings.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Arnhem. Ruins. June 1945. Arnhem

Exeter Raid Damage -- A picture of damage in streets which suffered heavily during the rais on Excter. This old cathedral city was attacked on Sunday night for the third time within ten days and a hospital, churches, and a college have been damaged. The Germans have paid dearly for their attacks on the city. August 29, 1942. (Photo by The Times).

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front in France. In Monchy. 1914-1918}. France, Monchy

March 1918. The King's orchard fire. Debris removal work in the place where the Catastrophe began, which reduced 200 houses to rubble - approximate date.

06/14/1937. A view of Labor's house, abandoned by the Nationals due to the impossibility of continuing to defend it, and in the power of the Republicans.

Town of Slonim Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

July 1937. Remains of a hospital in Flix (Tarragona), Destroyed in a Bombing.

An American supply column going through Duren, the German town battered by Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers and ground artillery during the U.S. offensive to the Rhine.

SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL (1939-1945). BATALLA DE STALINGRADO (agosto de 1942-febrero de 1943). "ZONA DE LA CIUDAD DE STALINGRADO OCUPADA POR TROPAS ALEMANAS" (octubre de 1942). URSS.

Fearful Havoc of The Italian Bombing Raid on Dessie.Fearful havoc wrought by the Italian bombs dropped on Dessie on December 6. These ruins, once the homes of Abyssinian families, are seen still reeking and smouldering *****.***** bombing planes flew over Dessie and dropped death-dealing explosive and incendiary - bombs: 300 bombs were dropped in a single day. The emperor Haile Selassie and Prince Makonnen were at Dessie at the time, and the emperor immediately afterwards visited the Red Cross Hospital, where two rooms were burned by a fragment from one of the Italian bombs. December 20, 1935. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Arnhem. Palace of Justice. June 1945. Arnhem

An Overall View Of The Bombed De-Waxing Unit Where Gasoline And Petroleum Products Were Processed At The Deutsche Gasoline Plant At Dollbergen, Germany (22 Miles East Of Hanover). With The American Solider Is Alex Barnekox, 17, Who Worked There Two Years

The Battle of Boulogne Fires raging in Boulogne with shell wrecked building in foreground. The battle of Boulogne has entered its final phase, and the Canadians creeping from doorway to doorway, are slowly but surely edging toward the remnants of the German Garrison, making their last stand. The town has taken terrific punishment from air and artillery. Machine Gunning and shelling continue to be fierce. September 20, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A Bulldozer Cleans Debris From A Street In Civitavecchia, Italy. The Buildings Were Demolished By Attacks From The 12Th And 15Th Air Forces.

1906. Almeria. Ruins of an explosion whose causes are unknown. Photo Morales.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. Destruction in Steenstraat in Venlo. March 1945. Limburg, Venlo

Destroyed Adriawerke 28.10.17. .

09/30/1911. Of the terrible catastrophe in resin Firefighters Searching for Victims among the Debris of one of the houses Destroyed by the flood.

'In the morning, work as usual. After a big raid, the way to the office is knee-deep in rubble. Lond Artist: Unknown.

Consequences of the bombing of Den Helder by the Germans on 14 May 1940.

March 1917 - British troops enter P鲯nne-en-M鬡ntois, France. Date: 1917

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Arnhem. World War II, destruction. June 1945. Arnhem

Famous Leicester Square After Bombs have Hit -- "Farewell, Leicester Square" of 1914 song fame was more fact than jest after noted London area had been damaged by bombs in raid announced by British October 31. This is general post-raid view, with part of damaged movie house at left. November 8, 1940. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Men carrying bodies on stretcher, surrounded by wreckage of the hurricane in Galveston, Texas, Sept. 1900. The disaster occurred on Sept. 8th, but relief efforts took two days to get underway and took weeks (BSLOC_2017_17_85)

Richmond, Virginia Ruins of paper mill with water-wheel. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Richmond (Va.), History, 1865, United States, Virginia, Manchester.

First Pictures Of Germany's Siegfried Line -- "The Gravestones Of Tanks" -- Reinforced concrete tank barriers, of different sizes and connected with concrete pillars to further strengthen them, being built along the Western frontier of Germany.These are the first pictures of Germany's new Siegfried line fortifications along that Western frontiers, described as "The most modern ad astounding works of our time". October 25, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Destructions air attack London. 1940-1945}. Britain, London

May 1921. Barcelona. A Formidable explosion. Condition of the third floor of Toledo Street, number 10, where bombs were manufactured, after the explosion that caused several deaths and injuries.

Photo collection Government information service. Bombardment Rotterdam. Department store De Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel. May 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

Soissons, Aisne, France The bombing of July 5 rue du Collège , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Soissons , Aisne , France Le bombardement du 5 Juillet rue du Collège). Floor , Reverber, Housing, Ruins, Bombing, Rue , Quartier, Habitat , Architecture, First World War, France, Soissons, bombing of July 5 (rue du Collège)

The remains of the Martini tower after German units had blown up.

Liuchow Area In China After The Retreating Japaneses Moved Just Outside The City After Completely Destroying It.

Loyal ***** searching the houses around Alcazar, the Streets and lanes are all in ruing ***** the fighting.Incessant bombardment of the Alcazar has brought ***** a nearly complete destruction of the whole ***** of Toledo. In spits of a siege of nearly 70 days ***** who held the Alcazar did not surrender and ***** were finally ***** by General Franco's Moorish *****. September 29, 1936. (Photo by Keystone).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Madura (BRENCARRIERPELOTON). Destroyed homes. On a bamboo mats wall hangs a post with the inscription "Revolusi". November 20, 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies

07/31/1917. Through a Bombed House - English Soldiers Loading an Ammunition Train.

Wrecked Port Of Cherboug - As The Americans Found It -- A view of the ruins of the port of Cherboug after the evacuation of the Germans. October 30, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Richmond, Virginia. Burnt district. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

01/01/1937. A street in Madrid during the Civil War.

The battle of malmaison. A German canon is captured in the grounds of the Chateau Pinion; world war one 1917

Anefo photo collection. Autumn storm. On the Amstel where boot fell on boat. October 19, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: The Hague. Two men with pre-hammers dealing with demolition work. July 1945. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. American soldiers and civilians for a destroyed home in Venlo. March 1945. Limburg, Venlo

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destructions 1940 The Netherlands - R to Z. Tilburg. May 1940. The Netherlands

German Bombers Raid England Six Times ***** -- Planes, believed to be German bomb sixth raid in nine days over England ***** Shown here is the damage caused in a ***** night of June 21. Three people were ***** house in a Suffolk town, according ***** approved caption. July 1, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Explosion of a bomb in the Russian building. Building after the explosion. April 15, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Chaulnes, Somme, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Chaulnes , Somme , France). Ruins, front, bombardment, rubble, agglomeration panorama, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, France, Chaulnes, Panorama taken from the top of the castle

With The Chinese Forces: Bombing Of Hsuchow -- Havoc at Hsuchow, on the Pekin-Hankow Railway, during a Japanese air raid in which 200 civilians were killed. Houses near the railway station are seen burning in this picture. June 27, 1938.

The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937

Two policemen and a civilian survey the ruins along the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks where boxcars were riddled by exploding shells from munitions storage barges tied up at Black Tom Island port facilities. June 30 1915.

Atomic Bomb Damage To Warehouse Of Suzuki Sugar Company, Hiroshima, Japan. 8 November 1945.

Image of some destroyed houses in the Prooststraat in Utrecht after an allied bombing.

Postwar Nuremberg, life amongst the ruins, 9/19/45

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Arnhem. Destroyed buildings. June 1945. Arnhem

Wrecked St. Vith In Black and White -- U. S. Troops of the first Army, Garbed in Camouflage snow suits, reconnoiter in the snow-covered Streets and blackened houses of St. Vith, Belgium, after the city was captured from the German Forces. January 31, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Bomb damage to railroad yards north of Rome, Italy.

Houses Lie Smashed On Desert -- Civil defense observers (upper right) temporarily put aside their work of evaluating the damage caused by yesterday's atomic explosion and line up for lunch provided by a civil defense mass feeding group. In foreground is the wreckage of a two-story brick house and just beyond it the wreckage of a one-story frame house, both 4700 feet from blast. May 06, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Rundstedt'S Headquarters -- American Air Force Officers Inspect The Ruins Of The Guttered Castle Headquarters Of Gen. Von Rundstedt Near Bad Nauheim. The Tower And The Wall Are Almost All That Remain Of The Once Palatial Headquarters Where Gen. Kesselrin

Germany, berlin, evacuate, 1945

Reconnaissance group in wrecked city -- A Reconnaissance group of the 63rd Division walk cautiously through the wreckage in the streets of Guedingen, Germany, six kilometers from Saarbrucken the thick column of Black smoke is unexplained in the caption received with this photo. March 18, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Elsevier photo collection. Rotterdam German bombing 14, 1940. Coolsingel. Buildings Cineac N.R.C .. 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

March 1915. The attack of the Airships on Paris. Damage caused by a bomb dropped from the Zeppelins on a house in Levallois.

Amidst The Wreckage And Debris Two Gi'S View What Used To Be The Medical Instruments And Ocular Instrument Buildings At The Carl Zeiss Plant In Jena, Germany, Also An Intergral Part Of The German War Marchine, Before Bombing Of Us 8Th Air force.

Richmond, Virginia Grounds of the ruined Arsenal with scattered shot and shell. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Medical aspects, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Richmond (Va.), History, 1865, Armories, United States, Virginia, Richmond.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment faithful, demonstration mobile column, rescuers abandoned house on the Alpinists fashion. November 3, 1960

Anefo photo collection. Scharters raise barricades in the Paardenstraat at De Amstel in Amsterdam. September 1, 1983. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Republic: Dolok Simoembah, Prapat, Bidamanik, East of Pematang Siantar; Purification actions on the east coast of Sumatra. Recovery. Again the entrepreneurs on Sumatra's east coast are for a schere up-human task: to create order in an unclear chaos, caused by years of destruction, looting and robbery. Enterprise Dolok Sinoembah. The remains of a burnt-out goodway. November 1, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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.

Elsevier photo collection. Stray bombs Zierikzee. elaboration bombs terrible life people. W. Leijdekkers, wife three-year foster child, lived Sint Domusstraat. special feature stated Leijdekkers family emigrated South Africa 1900 Transvaal. 1900 fled Boer War English now, seventeen later, affected English bombs. photo, Bette (actual name: Elisabeth De Jonge) .. April 30, 1917. Zeeland, Zierikzee

Following A Preliminary Softening Up By Artillery Tank-Destroyers And 9Th Af Dive Bombers Yank Infantrymen Are Shown Advancing Into The City Of Aachen, Germany.

Barracks and inn in the camp in Monte Rover.

Sabotage At Grenoble - In a ***** made to the consultative Assembly, on March 2, 1944, Mr. Emmanuel d'Asbier de La Vigerie, Commissar for the Interior, in the French Committee for National Liberation said: "During the last months of the year 1943, without any doubt, Grenoble has won the first piece in French resistance..." The Sabotage of the Artillery Park at Grenoble on the night of the 13/14th November was the high spot of the resistance movement in that town during November. Detonations were put in position near some 30 tons of powder and 300 tons of ammunition and at oh. 40m on the 14th the powder blew up. March 21, 1944.

10/31/1937. Bombing in Lérida by the National Troops.

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins in the State Arsenal yard and the burned district. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Paris has two exploits of heroes of the German air raid during the zeppelins of the night from 28th to 29th January 1916.

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