Destruction from War

Photos showing the aftermath of bombing in various cities during wartime, capturing the devastation and recovery efforts.

Photograph of St. Christophe Street, Soisonsen, on fire during World War One. Dated 1916

Civilians lee nationalist army shelling on Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War 1938

Cemetery, Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

The damage caused by bombardment by the French 75th Division close to Doiran on Salonika during the Mediterranean Campaign Date: circa 1917

World War II 1939-1945: View of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, after the explosion of the atomic bomb, 6 August 1945. US Army photograph. Warfare Nuclear Ruins Destruction

Damage done in the first bombing raid on London, 1915 (1937). Artist: Central Press

Riots In London After Banned Fascist March -- East London was the scene of many riots yesterday when thousands of people gathered to protest against the proposed Fascist march, which was ultimately banned by the police. 84 arrests were made. Photo Policemen dismantling a barrier which was erected by demonstrators in the vicinity of Aldgate, E. Note the overturned lorry. October 4, 1936. (Photo by Topical Press).;Riots In London After Banned Fascist March -- East London was the scene of many riot

General Bomb, Fires etc. January 1, 1941. (Photo by Keystone).

Canton & fire Chinese War. November 23, 1938.

American Troops In Trivere -- U.S. Army military police take over the town of Trivers, Normandy, after it had been shelled by artillery of the advancing Allied armies. In the foreground, a dead German lies beside the equipment. October 30, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

Men on a building with the Soviet Flag, Reichstag, Battle of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, May 1945

'Belfast: Children's Ward. The enemy's attack was directed against the whole life of the people, the Artist: Unknown.

First picture in Sydney of the America ***** the leaders of which are shown ***** Jose, California. They used two ***** doors, after which Thurmond and ***** Brooke L. Hart, were taken out and *****. January 09, 1934.

DA-SN-03-00973. Base: San Francisco State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

07/24/1936. Appearance of the Atarazanas artillery headquarters after its capture by the Republican army.

Photo collection Government information service. Destroyances Arnhem. View of the market. In the background the big or St. Eusebius church. On the left the National Archives. April 1945. Arnhem

Bujalance (Córdoba), 01/07/1937. Spanish Civil War. State in which the national troops found one of the streets of Bujalance after occupying the town.

On 5th August 1914 the Germans began the bombardment of Li觥 forts on the left bank of the Meuse, resulting in much damage to the city. Date: August 1914

FFI barricade, the liberation of Paris, World War II, 1944. Artist: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Police and army with armored cars and tanks clear up barricades in Vondelbuurt, Amsterdam; Clean up barricade. March 3, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

First aid to Rensa in the presence of Honourable Ventavoli, Deputy of Massa, earthquake in Versilia and Garfagnana, September 6-7, 1920, Italy, photo by A Bruni, Italian Illustration, XVLII, No 38, September 19, 1920.

The US Army on the Western Front 1917-1918 Wounded being treated by 110th Sanitary Train, 4th Ambulance Corps, 1st Division, in an old church, Neuville, Meuse.

Anefo photo collection. Gas explosion in Ridderkerk; Ravage overview. April 4, 1976. Ridderkerk

05/10/1931. Firefighters begin to collapse the convent on Flor Street that had been set on fire.

Historic photo, riots, streetfight, Spartacus League, March 1919, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Police and army with armored cars and tanks clear up barricades in Vondelbuurt, Amsterdam; Clean up barricade. March 3, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

German Major Beeger, commander of Dinant, visiting the ruins of the city, Belgium, World War I, Fotobureaux-Amsterdam, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLI, No 37, October 4, 1914.

The Russian German War - The effects of Russian ***** on a Finnish village. July 13, 1942. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).

Reims , Marne , Champagne , France , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France). Rear-front, dwelling, ruins, rear, bombing, street , neighborhood, rubble, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, France, Reims, Betheny district (bombardment of April 4, 1917).

12/31/1936. Barricades of the reds in the sandy area of Bilbao.

The intense fire which consumed Manila is shown as it moves down this row of houses on Avenida Tayuman in the Far Eastern University Sector. Scene is near notorious Bilibid prison around which an intense battle raged with the savagely resisting Jap.

Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Josef Stalin, leader of the USSR, imposed a land blockade on supplies from Western Europe to West Berlin. In response the British and American governments organised an enormous airlift to supply food and other essentials to the 2.5 million inhabitants of West Berlin. After a year Stalin

Anefo photo collection. Riots in Amsterdam in connection with the occupation by students from the Maagdenhuis police on engines. May 20, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

"The Sleepless Port" - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Victims of street fighting in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War

03/31/1917. On the Western Front. An aspect of the Peronne church at the entrance of the English troops into the city.

Fires spreading through San Francisco, completing the ruin of the city. The business distract was completely devastated, with only the steel structures of modern buildings still standing. The San Francisco earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, occurred on the 18th April 1906. A violent shaking lasted for 45 seconds and could be felt from Southern Oregon to Southern Los Angeles. Three thousand people lost their lives a destruction to property amounted to $400000000. Date: 12th May 1

The moment of the blast, at the Gate of China. Dec. 12, 1937 - Japanese attack on Shanghai

Border of Three Nations' - Berlin's Black Market CentrePotsdamer place central Berlin, where the soviet, British and American sectors meet pictured from atop high building. Since currency reform this has become Berlin's biggest black market centre, where Berliners can exchange east and west marks.This has been the scene of recent raids by Russian sector police and troops, during which several Germans have been shot and others kidnapped. August 22, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

05/31/1917. The New War Machines. Two French Tanks on their way to the front line.

09/30/1910. Arsenal door destroyed by artillery.

Describes it as a view of Berlin bomb damage along the Aschaffenburger Strasse, looking toward the Prager Platz. (Eds: This is in Southern section of Berlin). May 4, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

USA, New York State, New York City, Lower Broadway, parade midst ticker tape

Devastation of Krupps works in captured Essen. There was still house-to-house fighting in Essen today (1/4/45) when an R.A.F. Official Photographer flew over the city, and this may have accounted for the deserted appearance of the streets. An aerial view of the devastated Krupps works at Essen, the works stretched over an area of 2½ miles by 1,500 yards. May 21, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. Clearance remains Pier Scheveningen. October 28, 1953. Scheveningen, South Holland

Nazi banners and symbols are gathered to be publicly burned in Red Square Moscow. 1945

Two Years Afterwards - Cassino Filmed, That It May Be Rebuilt -- From the film 'Abbey of Montecassino": after the bombardment, the handful of survivors make their way out of the ruined monastery.In May 1944, the German army at Cassino capitulated,after a terrible bombardment which reduced the little Monastery town on the road to 'Rome to a smoking heap of ruins. Now, two years afterwards, the story of Cassino is being retold in a film made by the Pastor Company, of which the profits will be devoted to the rebuilding of Cassino. May 1, 1946.

12/31/1939. The military man Jose Moscardó Ituarte.

Fire sweeping the shopping section of Canton during the Japanese assault. The victors were robbed of their prize when, on entering, they found that the fire, which had blazed for days, had turned the prosperous city to ashes. November 19, 1938.

Anefo photo collection. Bomb attack in the Jewish district of Antwerp. Large havoc after the attack. October 20, 1981. Antwerp, Belgium

Anefo photo collection. Fire in warehouses on Prinseniland 75 in Amsterdam. Fire brigade in action. July 22, 1949. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Through Italy grenade hits destroyed building at Noventa 22.1.18. .

July 16 1941 Molochwa Palace in Smolensk Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Photograph of British Troops along trenches advancing towards Antwerp in Belgium. Dated 1918

1940s AUGUST 5 1943 BRITISH SOLDIERS 8TH ARMY RUNNING OVER RUBBLE RUINS IN CATANIA SICILY ITALY

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

Pacific War or Saltpeter War. Armed conflict between 1879-1883 that pitted Chile against its allies Bolivia and Peru. Panoramic view of the Bay and Port of Arica, when the third Chilean expedition embarked on December 15, 1880. Engraving. La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1881.

SANTANDER. EXPLOSION DEL BUQUE " CABO MACHICHACO " EN 1892. UNA CALLE DE LA CIUDAD DESPUES DEL DESASTRE. GRABADO. L ` ILLUSTRATION.

Photograph of an evacuation of the streets of Dunkirk. Dated 1941

Soldier standing guard in a Washington, D.C., street with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 8 April 1968. Photographer: Warren K Leffler.

Illustration showing the evacuation of civilians by the Women's Voluntary Service during one of the German air-raids on the East End of London, 1940. These air-raids, which resulted in the destruction of much of that part of London were popularly known as the 'Blitz'. Date: 1940

Mumbai police controlling riots, Maharashtra, India NO MR Copyright: xMukeshxParpiani/DinodiaxPhotox

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Captured Jews are led by German Waffen SS soldiers to the assembly point for deportation

The Russian invasion of East Prussia in 1914, Lyck, destroyed infrastructure, formerly East Prussia, Germany, today Elk in the Polish voivodeship Warmia-Masuria, Poland, view around ca 1910, digital reproduction of a historical postcard, from that time, exact date unknown, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Riots at evacuation of properties in Nieuwmarktbuurt in Amsterdam; Police stormed house. March 24, 1975. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

05/29/1912. After the Villarreal catastrophe. Nurses at the Villarreal hospital placing large pieces of ice inside the coffins to prevent their decomposition.

Charleston, South Carolina The Mills House, with adjacent ruins. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Hotels, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.

The Riots in Belfast -- ***** street, Falls Road, one of the many thoroughfares in this ***** where the roads were torn up to obstruct the armoured *****. November 21, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

Flood disaster 1953.utriant soldiers in surveillance on the quay, with links at the intersection with the Molendijk a part of the town hall. Archer the soldiers, the viewing direction of the soldiers, the havoc in the Voorstraat with the Dutch Reformed Church at the end the tree).

Anefo photo collection. Liberation joy: Liberation route Princess Irene Brigade Utrecht-Woerden-Alphen a / d Rijn-Leiden-The Hague. Kolonne Princess Irene Brigade drives through Wageningen (after battles. See soldiers front left). On the right a building in the style of the Delft School with street sign "market" Hoogstraat market in Wageningen, looking in a direction. 1945

From the conquered Zenson 22.6.18. .

After the Earthquake, San Francisco. Artist: Arnold Genthe (American (born Germany), Berlin 1869-1942 New Milford, Connecticut). Dimensions: 13.3 x 23.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.). Date: 1906.Early on the morning of April 18, 1906, a severe earthquake rocked San Francisco, immediately prompting a devastating three-day fire. Genthe, a pictorialist photographer who operated a portrait studio on Sutton Street, captured the panic and confusion that pervaded the city and presaged the vast damage yet to come: by the end of the third day, more than four square miles of San Francisco had been leveled. Adding to the trauma of earthquake and fire were the controlled explosions of dynamite meant to eliminate structurally compromised buildings.H. Wild, a resident of downtown, described a scene similar to Genthe's photograph in her notebook: "The fire spread more and more. The sight from our roof was a grand and terrible one. The fires had spread from Franklin downward to Market on our street and the w

Anefo photo collection. Evacuation of great law, today's squat in Amsterdam has been evacuated by me and Marechaussee. With the help of aerial platforms, I reached the roof. December 2, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Rescue efforts during the Dayton, Ohio Flood of 1913

Vasily Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945, Anonymous

Lord Wavell Inspects Scenes Of Calcutta Rioting -- This picture received in London by Air this morning September 4, shows Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India (in light suit5 left, pointing), surveying some of the damage caused by rioters in Calcutta, in a Rubble Strewn street. A military staff member (left) of his party is telling him the story of bloodshed in that area during the rioting in which thousands were killed. September 12, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Dead bodies and rubble in the street at Messina, Sicily, Italy, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 which measured 7.5 on the richter scale and claimed 100,000-200,000 lives in all. In Messina, 91% of structures were destroyed and 70,000 residents were killed. Date: 1908

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

Public View Wreaths For Queen Army -- Silent crowds file slowly past wreaths sent for the funeral of Queen Mary yesterday at Windsor Castle and Laid out on the Castle lawns today April 1. April 15, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Barrage balloons over London during World War II. Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial can be seen in the middle ground.

Photo collection First World War. To Duffel in the Antwerp area. The pastor returns and finds his church completely shot in rubble. 1914-1918}. Belgium, Duffel

Hospitals Prepare: A sand bag emplacement in front of the entrance to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, E.C. At all the London hospitals preparation for any emergency in case of war are well under way. August 26, 1939. (Photo by Topical Press).

Italia. Portada de revista La Domenica del Corriere, editada en Milan, enero de 1939. Tropas del ejército franquista ocupando pueblos y ciudades destruídos en Catalunya.

Anefo photo collection. Bomb attack in the Jewish district of Antwerp. The car in which the bomb was placed; In the background the synagogue. October 20, 1981. Antwerp, Belgium

Extinguishing the heavy fire to the Elandsgracht, 1679. Extinguishing the heavy fire between the Elandsgracht and the Elandsstraat in Amsterdam, created by lightning strike in the night of 27 July 1679. From different houses, fire spraying is attempted to extinguish the fire. To illustrate skills with snake surf sprayers. Later state (with the letter), plate 8 is in the fire spa book by Jan van der Heyden.

On The Sandbag Front, St. Paul's Is Well Protected : A Picture taken near St. Paul's, showing the plentiful sandbag protection which the city is giving to its famous buildings. October 09, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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