Destruction from Air Strikes in WWII

Photos showing bomb damage to factories and infrastructure in Europe, highlighting the impacts of air power during WWII.

The foundry at Terni, bombed by the planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.

Precision Bomb By Us 8Th Air force And RAF In March And Sept. 1944 Was Responsible For The Present Picture Of Frankfurt Adler-Werke Tank Factory Destroyed By Air Power. In The Pciture Can Be Seen Piles Of Differential Housing, Axels, Leaf Springs And Wheels Sif

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards Somewhere In France. 31 July 1944.

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Salvage And Reconstruction In The Contest Between Allied Bombardiers And German Work Battalions Are Evidenced By Piles Of Pipe And Lumber Neatly Piled And Knocked Askew By Succeeding Bombing Attacks.

Bomb-Wrecked Buildings In Paris, France Which Were Destroyed By Bombs From Planes Of The 386Th Bomb Group During A Raid On 1 Dec 1944.

Bomb damage at Nantes from...

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 These Hits On Two Storage Tanks (Right And Center Foreground) Of The Larger Benz

Aerial View Of Bologna, Italy, After The Fall Of The City, Showing The Accurate Bombing By 12Th & 15Th Air Force Planes. None Of The City'S Cultural Shrines Were Hit. 6 August 1944.

The foundry at Terni, bombed by the planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.

A Turntable In The Plattling, Germany, Marshalling Yards That Took A Direct Bomb Hit. The Infantryment Looking Over The Bomb Damage Are Grateful For The Air Cooperation They Received. June 1945.

The Fury Of An Allied Air Attack Left Tokuyama, Japan, A Grotesque Symbol Of The Oil Industry.

Wreckages Of German Field Pieces In The Foreground Accentuates Heavy Damage Dealt The Naumberg, Germany, Ordnance Depot By 9Th Af Douglas A-26 Invaders And A-20 Havocs During The Final Stages Of The War In Europe. The Depot Once Supplied Nazi Forces In C

How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of 1St Tac Medium And Fighter Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By This Photo Showing German Civilians In The Streets Of Badly Bombed Town North Of Neustadt, German

Main Street - Japan - 1945. Osaka-Kobe Area - A Machine Tool Plant Once Operated From This Building, But The B-29's Came To Close Up Shop.

Officers Of The Us Strategic Air Forces In Europe Inspect Damage Done By U.S. 8Th Air Force Bombs To The Bacalan Plant At Bordeaux, France, Which Was Producing Parts For Nazi Fw-190S Before It Was Attacked And Put Out Of Commission.

Interior of Fort Sedgwick. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-1084. Forts & fortifications, Union, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, Bombproof construction, Virginia, Petersburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union, Virginia, Petersburg, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865.

Littoria Airport, near Rome, Italy formerly used by the Germans, after it had been bombed by the Allies during the offensive. 6 June 1944.

To ease the task of U.S. ground forces advancing on Duren, Germany, Allied airplanes subjected the cityto many intensive bombardments. The destruction wrought on building by planes, aided by artillery shelling, is shown in this panoramic view near

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 Looking Down Into The Debris Pile That Once Was The Factory Area Of Forbach, Ger

Harbor facilities on the west coast of Italy, once used by the Nazi to supply his forces on the Italian front, are now nothing but a mass of twisted steel, blasted buildings and scattered debris, after being bombed by the Mediterranean Allied Air

Wreck of Blakely gun on the Frazer's wharf, Charleston, South Carolina. Civil War Photograph Collection , No. 3088. War damage, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Artillery (Weaponry), South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, Union.

Aircraft, Burma, India &CAPTUREDMATERIEL War

Le Bourget Airfield (near...

Planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces attacked the rail yards at Reggio Nell Emilia, Italy, one of the many Po River targets. These freight cars loaded with three inch shells were bombed while sitting in the yards. Shells were scattered over

On 2 August 1944 A Tremendous Explosion Rocked The Village Of Remy, France, When Four Us 8Th Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightnings Of 364Th Fighter Group, Strafed A Munitions And Troop Train Which Had Pulled Into A Switching Track In The Little Village. Car

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.

Dive Bombing P-47S Of Xix Tax Polished Off This Engine At Sierck Les Bains, France.

Bomb Damage To St. Sauveur Le Vicomte, France. 22 July 1944.

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 The Remains Of Bombed Warehouses In A Troop Supply Area At Bitche, Germany.

HOW AIR FORCE STOPS NAZI OIL-In this area, 29 storage tanks with a total of 13,000 tons of oil were destroyed as a result of fire and direct hits during the 8th USAF attack on the Standard Oil plant at Gennevilliers, suburb of Paris. The intense heat

Blast Struck Downward Against The Roof Of The Chinzei School, 1,500 Feet From Ground Zero At Nagasaki, Japan, Which Had Been Taken Over In Part For Munitions Work. The Fourth Story Collapsed Completely, But The Heavy Earthquake-Resistant Structure Protec

The Steaming Mass Of Hot Lava Moves Into The City Of San Sebastiano, Italy, Crushing Everything In Its Path. Very Little Is Left Uncovered By The Mass Which Was Caused By The Eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius On 23 March 1944.

December 28, 1936. Appearance of one of the Cafes in the Madrid neighborhood of Tetuán, Destroyed by the Bombings.

AGEH-1 Plainview , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Demolished Marshalling Yards At Plattling, Germany Bombed By The 15Th Af Bombers.

Charleston, South Carolina Interior of Fort Sumter, with gabion reinforcements. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment and supplies, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Forts & fortifications, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.

Bomb damage at Nantes from bombing of 16 September, 1943.

Bomb Damage, Rastatt, Germany.

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.

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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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.

Bombing of railways in Narvik, Norway.

Anonymous, destruction of the Charlemagne passage after the bombings of 1918, 4th arrondissement, Paris. (Faithful title), 1918. Argentic process. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

The railroad station at Cisterna, South of Rome, lies completely destroyed and useless after being attacked by Mediterranean Allied Air Force bombers.

Wallingford tornado. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1878. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Connecticut, Tornadoes , Connecticut , Wallingford, Natural disasters

Bomb Damage To The Marshalling Yards At Florence, Italy. These Yards Were Wrecked During Bombing By The 42Nd Bomb Wing On 26 September 1944.

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. C. Nederlands Front - Meidagen '40. Repro's telex messages and newspaper pages. German troops at a destroyed bru over a canal. May 1940. The Netherlands

The first U.S. tank to enter Aachen, Germany, rumbles through a hole opened in the railroad station by a tank-dozer. As the tanks, tank-destroyers and other heavy armament awaited the termination of a bombardment by 9th AF dive-bombers before

Gabes, Tunisia-Huge bomb craters in the roadway outside the German Staff Headquarters at Gabes, Tunisia.

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3458. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, South Carolina, Charleston, Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, Retaining walls, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, War damage, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870.

Turkish siege battery, Adrianople

Madrid, 1937. Spanish Civil War. Appearance of the Clinical Hospital during the fight.

Houses destroyed by shell fire during World War One. The photograph, taken by the Signal Corps photographer, displays the significant damage caused by shelling. The image serves as a record of the devastation that occurred during the war.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: The Hague. War damage in The Hague: consequences of the bombing on the Bezuidenhout. June 1945. The Hague, South Holland

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of cotton. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Bomb Damage In The Ginza Area.

Image showcases the aftermath of the destruction caused by the Viet Cong in the village of Thanh My in Vietnam. Taken on June 11, 1970, the photograph shows extensive damage to nearly half of the village. This image was captured by Sgt. H. Berkowitz and is part of the Defense Department's collection of photographs documenting American military activities during the Vietnam War.

Aircraft, Burma, India & Bombing,

Wheeler Field, T.H. - Plane Wreckage Hanger No. 3 With Barracks In Background, Wheeler Field, T.H.

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.

Belleau Village

War album 95, picture 28177.

Anefo photo collection. Drieling operation. January 25, 1966

Aerial View Of The Bomb Damaged Railroad Yards At Siegen, Germany. 9 May 1945.

Confederate dead at Fort Robinette, Corinth | Library of Congress

Destroyed village Swidniki. .

Small Grinder And Small Furnace In Yokohama, Japan. Most Of The Homes Produced Small Parts For The War Effort. Sept. 1945.

Accident in Malmkajen.

AM-504 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Interior View of Fort Sumpter. George N. Barnard; American, 1819-1902. Date: 1866. Dimensions: 25.6 x 36.2 cm (image/paper); 41 x 50.5 cm (album page). Albumen print, plate 57 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866). Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Floods 1955 , Floods, Debris, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

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.

Dug In On Iwo Under Suribachi's Guns. This image depicts Marines and Coast Guard beach parties setting up for business on Iwo Jima only a few yards from the water's edge and under the thickly placed guns of the volcanic fortress.

Artillery observation stand made of concrete under construction from the front. .

The bombing by the Allies left a forest of strange brick stumps, like a ghostly scene where the ancient Druids practiced black magic. The Nazis did not stay around long after this. An American pyramidal tent is pitched on the floor, all that was left

Due to heavy rainfall during the month of November 1944, the roads and areas near the winter barracks at Poltava Airbase became one big patch of mud. Poltava Airbase was one of the shuttle mission bases in Russia.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Distribution of clothing and cigarettes in Tjiawigadjah and Tjilimoes. Dutch soldier in women who create debris at a building in degradation. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Scorched earth, 1947 photograph In the port of Probolinggo, the Republican army set fire to the warehouses, July 31, 1947. Java photographic support Guerilla Warfare Java. Dutch East Indies, The

Bomb Damage To Railroad Yards At Sienna, Italy.

Bomb Damage In Northern Italy Caused By Bombs From 15Th Af Bombers. 12 May 1945.

AE-27 Butte , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Anefo photo collection. REP. Houses Bickersgracht, command Brabant pers. June 29, 1977

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.

Floods 1955 , Floods, Debris, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Spectacular Crash Of North American B-25 At Byoritsu Oil Refinery, Formosa, Was Photographed By A B-25 Of The 5Th Af's 345Th Bomb Group On 26 May 1945 Just As The Mitchell Hits In Flames.

May 1945-This is the wreckage of German fuel depot near Torgau, Germany, after it had been knocked out of the way by the Allies. Picture was made from a 9th AF plane.

The Mitsubishi Arms Factory After Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki, Japan. 14 October 1945.

CVA(N) 68 Chester W. Nimitz , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

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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.

Immense Wreckage In The Trento Marshalling Yards In Itlay. An American Officer Is Looking Over The Damage Done By The 15Th Air Force.

A German half-track destroyed in Houffalize, Belgium, object of repeated bombardments by 9th AF medium, light, and fighter-bombers before the Germans withdrew from their important communications center.

Bomb Damage In Northern Italy Caused By Bombs From 15Th Af Bombers. 12 May 1945.

Damaged German planes and hangar at Comiso Airport in Sicily. 13 July 1943.

Wreckage In The Landshut Marshalling Yards In Germany, Caused By The Bombing Of The 15Th Af Bombers.

A Mark IV tank destroyed in Houffalize, Belgium, object of repeated bombardments by 9th A.F. medium, light and fighter-bombers before the Germans withdrew from their important communications center.

The Navy struck heavily at Civitavecchia, Italy as did MAAF in frequent attacks.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars. East north end. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Arsenal grounds, Richmond, Virginia, showing ruins and shot and shell scattered around. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative may be available: LC-B811-3225. Ammunition, Virginia, Richmond, 1860-1870, War damage, Virginia, Richmond, 1860-1870, Arsenals, Virginia, Richmond, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Virginia, Richmond, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Virginia, Richmond, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, Virginia, Richmond, Richmond (Va.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

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