Destruction of War Landscapes

Black and white images of war-torn landscapes showing devastation, ruins, and wreckage from various battles, primarily from World War I.

'La Bataille de la Somme; En terrain reconquis: les formidables reseaux allemands bouleverses devant le village de Dompierre, qui fut enleve par nos troupes le premier jour de l'attaque', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Shot Italy. Position on Podgora 20.2.18. .

The charred wreckage of planes litter the stricken U.S.S. bunker hill after valiant efforts of crew brought fires under control. At the time of the attack, her deck was jammed with planes ready for take-off. June 21, 1945. (Photo by ACME).

'La Bataille de la Somme; En terrain reconquis: les formidables reseaux allemands bouleverses devant le village de Dompierre, qui fut enleve par nos troupes le premier jour de l'attaque', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Battle of Albert. Ruins on the outskirts of Mametz, July 1916; showing communication trench and wrecked railway line.

Photo collection First World War. The British Advance in The West. Railway Station at Beaumont Hamel .. 1914-1918}. Beaumont-Hamel, France

Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Hurricanes, Debris, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Soukey tranquility. Soukey: Purification actions of 3-4 R.I. The patrol on the way. January 14, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Yorktown, Virginia. Exploded gun in Confederate battery | Library of Congress

Fort Brady, James River, Virginia near Dutch Gap Canal. No. B505, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Fort Brady.

Spoils of war on the road before Codroipo Veneto; photographer: Krieg Vermessung 5.

RAF Damage To German Transport At Vaires -- A general view of the damage at Vaires. A scene of great devastation was revealed. when the first ground photographs were taken at the Vaires, France, railway yards, target many attacks by R.A.F. Bomber Command. January 1, 1945. (Photo by Department of Air).

Fifth Japanese Planes Destroyed -- In a swift, devastating strike by U.S. Fifth Air Force bombers this last effective Nip air base in New Guinea recently was badly damaged. The location is Jefman airdrome, Sorong Island, where 50 Japanese planes were destroyed both on the ground and in the air. In this photo two Nip planes are seen destroyed on the ground while a third rises to a sudden, fiery end in the air. When the U.S. bombers had finished their work, not a serviceable Jap plane remained on the ground. Note the delayed bomb being parachuted to the ground right on the tail of the Jap bomber. June 24, 1944. (Photo by USA Fifth Air Force).

Anefo photo collection. Dutch troops Ärrriise in In Probolinggo arrived. The warehouses were on fire. Being immediately started with extinguishing work .. September 8, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Hurricanes, Trees, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Tree group on the bases of Hulewicze. (Feber 1918.).

How Bombs, Rockets And Strafing Guns Of The 1St Tactical Air Force Medium And Fighter Bombers Helped Pave The Way For The Armies Advancing Across The Upper Rhine Is Revealed By This Junk Yard Which Was Once The Important Marshalling Yards At Zweibrucken, Germany

All that remains of the Miri Shop Power House after Allied bombings. A dirt revetment had been built outside the building and inside the building another revetment of sand filled fuel drums and water tanks had been constructed. Even though we scored

Destroyed trees on the battlefield of the Chemin des Dames, in 1917, Aisne, France.

Photo collection First World War. British Advance in The West. All That Is Left Of The Station Of Beaumont Hamel. 1914-1918}. Beaumont-Hamel, France

07/22/1930. Earthquake in Naples.

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene. Normandy. Radio telegraphist protects difficult mosquitoes help network. August 1944. France, Normandy

War yard at the street before CodeRoipo 18.11.17. .

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. storm damage. undated

The Job Of Returning Germany'S Railways To Their Former State Of Serviceability Presents A Huge Task For Allied Occupation Forces As Shown Here In A View Of Damage In The Southern End Of The Triptis Marshalling Yard, Rendered Unservicable By 9Th Af Div. M

Interior view of Fort Brady, James River, Virginia, near Dutch Gap Canal. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. B689. Forts & fortifications, Virginia, 1860-1870, Cannons, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Union, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Members of a South Carolina Regiment killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the USA Civil War, July 1863

Valona-Ta came. Southern MAI 1918..

Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the 'SS Mont-Blanc' caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland, whereupon it exploded (it was carrying a cargo of benzoil and picric acid), resulting in the death of approx. 2000 people and the utter devastation of a wide area. This card shows rescuers searching through the debris. Date: 1917

01/01/1915. French Installations in Campaign. An aviation park on the second line of fire, in northern France.

Destroyed buildings after the riots between Hindus and Muslims in Noakhali East Bengal, November 1946, India Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Marines Take 'Impregnable' Jap Pillbox On Iwo Jima -- American Marines, invading the Jap stronghold of Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, dig in after taking what was an "Impregnable" enemy pillbox (center background). Note Marine in center digging foxhole and bodies, some in open, some partly covered by sand, which caption did not identify. These are fourth division marines in action February 19. February 22, 1945. (Photo by Joe Rosenthal, AP Wirephoto).

01/01/1922. Morocco. Life in the Campaign. The Officers' kitchen in an advanced position.

The effects of 305 mm austrian grenades on the road along the Soca (Isonzo), Italian-Austrian fire line, World War I, photo by Alberto Mariani, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 29, July 18, 1915.

Crni Vrh. Surveying work; probably near Loznica, Serbia; photographer: Kriegsmappierung 4.

Personnel and wagons with goods in rail accidents.

'La guerre aerienne en Macedoine Grecque : un avion ennemi "Descendu" dans le lac amatovo; les debris de l' "Albatros" ont ete rassembles a proximite d'un village macedonien', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

Suspension point Westschanze.

Malaya-war Japanese tanks destroyed. January 28, 1942.

Second World War. After the fighting. Russia, Belgorod Oblast. Destroyed houses on a highway. View with relatives of Germans Wehr Amch on horsebacks. In the background a village with church (maybe Lulstki)

01/07/1963. Material damage due to a flood in Seville.

World War I 1914-1918: Woodland at Mesnil-les-Haut, France, reduced to skeletons of trees by gunfire. From Le Flambeau, Paris, September 1915. Bombardment Destruction

'Les succès Britanniques, entre Arras et Lens; A travers la champ de bataille: l'emplacement du village d'Athies, enlevé par nos allies au Sud-Ouest de Vimy', 1917. First World War: British success, between Arras and Lens; across the battlefield, the village of Athies, taken by our allies southwest of Vimy. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

First World War Panoramas Collection

The Battle of Passchendaele. This photograph shows the battle field. Unknown

The Battle of the Somme, July - November 1916 Battle of Albert. 9.2-inch gun firing. 1st July 1916.

French-British forces in Lassigny after the German retreat, France, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 14, April 8, 1917.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Camping life of IV-8 Regiment Infanterie in Klender (last Sawit, East Jakarta). Three shooters in a excavated statement. May 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

An ex-twon in the ex-Bulge is Houffalize, Belgium, victim of 9th Air force's mediums and fighters plus shellfire.

Battle-scarred scene - Baltimore War Show

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. Once Contalmaison Chateau. 1914-1918}. Contalmaison, France

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC New Guinea series. Convention from forest area. October 1948. New Guinea

149mm g.kanone, old Italian iron gun. .

Top: Fat Man - the Plutonium-core atomic bomb which was exploded over Nagasaki. Above: The tortured remains of trees and rubble after the blast. October 09, 1945. (Photo by US Signal Corps Photo).

Kuma class cruiser taking...

German columns on advance in Nelse 1919.

Through enemy granates destroyed houses.30.8.17. .

This Is Not A Railway Accident. Us 8Th Air force Bombed Germany Railways With A Purpose To Deny The Enemy His Transport. This Tangled Mess Of Passenger Coach Trucks, Air Lines And Material Show The Accuracy Of American Daylight Bombing Methods, On The Railyard

'L'instruction de la Nouvelle armee Belge; L'entrainement de la Nouvelle armee Belge. Dans un centre d'instruction du genie : en haut, harponnage et arrachage des piquets soutenant les fils barbeles, pour pratiquer une trouee a travers le reseau : a gauche, hommes creusant un passage souterrain pour eviter l'obstacle des chevaux de frise : a droite, passage au-dessus des reseaux au moyen d'une legere passerelle rapidement construite.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

05/17/1911. The Events of Morocco. The Villa of Dalla-Ito. After the Bombing.

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. View on Flers. 1914-1918}. Flers, France

After A Five Day Assault By 8Th Consolidated B-24 Liberators The Bachman Von Blumenthal Company'S Me-110 Factory At Furth, Germany, Was Completely Demolished. Here Part Of A Propeller Stands In The Foreground With Damaged Plane Parts Piled On The Left An

World War I 1914-1918: Austro-Hungarian Uhlans fighting on the south-eastern front using cover of the forests edge, 1917. Military, Army, Soldier, Weapon, Rifle, Smallarms

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

08/31/1914. In the forest of Villers Cotteret. Remains of a German Automobile Convoy That Was Destroyed by a French Dragoon Patrol.

01/31/1916. Artillery in War. French Army Large Caliber Mortar Depot To the rear of the battle line.

A bulldozer of the 9th AF Aviation engineers clears an airfield of German dummy planes somewhere in the Cherbourg peninsula of France, in preparation for Allied Planes operation. Jerry used dummies to attract the attention of attacking Allied planes

The British Army in Burma 1945 A Lee tank during the advance south from Mandalay, 20 March 1945.

Japanese Position Destroyed on Tarawa Island This desolate scene of rubble is the remains of a Japanese position on the east beach of Tarawa Island in the Gilbert group of the South Pacific after U.S. Forces attacked the Japanese on Nov. 20. February 12, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A French heavy-gun battery on the Macedonian border A French heavy-gun battery is pictured moving uphill through lines of barbed wire on the Balkan front, October 1916. The battery was part of the Allied army based in the Greek port of Salonika who were engaged in fighting the Bulgarian army, who had joined the central powers in the invasion of Serbia in October 1915. Date: 1916

Reds Attack Nazi-Held Town On Western Front -- Russian soldiers dash into this Nazi-held village on the Western front to take up new positions while other soldiers cover their advance. June 4, 1942. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photo collection Government information service. Bombardment Rotterdam. Remnants of Rutten's cafeteria on the Stationsweg. May 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

ofam from fire extinguishers covers the plowed soil of this field somewhere in England where a Flying ofrtress crashed, killing all but one of its crew.

Pas-de-Calais, Realistic Travels, Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley, British officers and signallers in one trench near La Boisselle, recto - printed, stereograph, stereo photo, photos, By Royal command to their Imperial majesties King George V and Queen Mary, 47, height 85 mm, width 170 mm, photographer, 1916 - 1918, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front. Bridging The Somme. 1914-1918}. France, Somme

Reports from New Guinea tell of the splendid part played by Australian artillery units in recent operations ***** against the Japanese. This picture gives some indication of the tremendous task that confronted the gunners before they could get their guns into battle positions in the hear and the jungle. The twenty-five pounders wee dismantled and the parts man-handled through almost were dismantled and the parts man-handled through almost trackless bush to during them within range of the enemy. A A.I.F. captain in quoted as having said, "These men were determined to beat the ***** at their own game, and were working like slaves to keep the guns operating in forward areas." October 14, 1942.

Gibsonvale 1941. January 22, 1942.

Tanks Badly Needed By German Armies Defending Their Homeland Used To Come From The Adlerwerke Plant In Frankfurt, Germany -- Before Bombs Of The Us 8Th Air force And The RAF Made It Their Target In March 1944 And Again In Sept. Only Rubble And Debris Remained A

This was a train. Before a R.A.F. bomb came down this mangled heap of wreckage was an ammunition train moving up to supply Rommel's army. Of all the have wrought by the R.A.F. to Rommel's supply lines, this was the most spectacular. February 20, 1943. (Photo by Department of Information, Commonwealth of Australia).

Bombed building at Benina Field, Bengasi, Lybia, July 1943.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Palembang. Improvised emergency bridge. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Semarang sector. Semarang: The statements, which the extremists in recent months, despite the file conditions within the demarcation line at Semarang, have turned out to be little utility. A captured bunker at Semarang. July 26, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

Scorched earth. In the port of ProBolinggo, the Republican Army fired the warehouses, July 31, 1947.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Palembang. Driver booths of two neighborly parked jeeps. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

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.

The British Occupation of Java Men of the 4/7th Rajputs in Bekassi during a reconnaissance in force to locate positions held by Indonesian nationalists. The damage to the buildings was mostly caused by 2 inch mortars with which the Rajputs replied to fire from Indonesian snipers.

The Hundred Days Offensive, August-november 1918

IN THE WIRE, a body of an American soldier caught on barbed wire fence, probably in France, 1918. Photo by Eyre Powell, Chief of Union Pacific Press Bureau, which was attached to the U.S. Army 89th Infantry Division, which fought in France in 1918 (BSLOC_2017_20_179)

NOJ LOK 1 "Hultenheim" The explosion in Eksjö on 8/4-1902.noj, Nässjö - Oskarshamns Railway

Listening post, front line, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Brastagi. On their arrival at Brastagi, our troops did a lurid find. 18 enclosures were found in a mass grave. Elsewhere in the village, 40 terrible mutilated seem to be found from other victims of the TNI. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

They Price They Pay Crossing Of The Don River -- A dramatic view of the point where the Germans have crossed the river. The Russian bombers and heavy artillery have exacted very heavy toll of German tanks and lorries. The approaches and the bridge itself are littered with the wracks to a choking point, but an utmost disregard for the losses has enabled the Germans to force the crossing. October 5, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

Armorship boosts.Sweden (depicted - name)

Second World War. After the fighting. Ukraine. Grave of a fallen relatives of the German Wehrmacht near Oskotschnoje

German Bombers Raid English East Coast -- British sources said this picture, radioed from London to New York June 19, showed air raid damage in a Cambridgeshire village after a German bombing raid the night of June 18-19 on the English East coast. Twelve civilians were killed and 11 injured in the widespread raid. Cambridgeshire lies North of London. June 19, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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