Destruction of War-Torn Cities

Images showcasing the rubble and destruction of cities in Europe and Malta after intense bombing during World War II and World War I.

Bombing of Helsinki by the Russians, World War 2, c1940. Artist: Unknown

Ruing Of Polish Capital.This corner in the Polish capital of Warsaw was reduced to Rubble by the shelling and Bombing of the city during the war. This photo was taken by Henry L. Griffin, Associated Press Staff Photographer. October 13, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Damage To Malta -- View of the damage caused in Malta by enemy air raids, during which casualties were very small, owing to the excellent shelter system. August 14, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

Yanks Patrol Ruins Of Vire - With guns ready, two Yanks Patrol the ruins of Vire, French Town reduced to skeleton ruins by concentrated artillery fire used to drive the Germans out. Retreating Germans kept the town covered with mortar and other fire after allies entered. August 14, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photograph showing the destruction at the town of Saint-Cyr, in Western France, during the liberation of France from German occupation in the summer of 1944. Dated 20th Century

Verdun after the bombing, July 18, 1916, France, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 31, July 30, 1916.

Lenin street, the city's Main thoroughfare.In liberated Sebastopol. Painful wounds have been inflicted on Sebastopol by the German and Rumanians. July 17, 1944. (Photo by S. Gurary).

British army experts look over bomb damage in North Malayan town Taiping ten minutes after Japanese planes had turned for home. This house had been evacuated a day before by Chinese family of thirteen. January 14, 1947.

Bombing of Helsinki by the Russians, World War 2, c1940. Artist: Unknown

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

Test Pictures Of Helsinki Bomb Damage - Six-storey buildings Helsinki completely destroyed by soviet airmen's bombs. January 02, 1940. (Photo by Keystone).

Spanish Civil War: The ruins of Guernica after bombing by the German Condor legion Aircraft 1937

10/31/1937. One of the Houses Destroyed in Valencia by the Air Force bombing.

Invasion Aftermath -- Here are ruins in Ying-Tan, Kiangsi Province, China, after the Japanese occupation of the town during their summer offensive in 1942. Picture was made by a Catholic Missionary of the Vincentian order. May 21, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Cagliari, Sardinia-9/29/43.

Terrorist Outrage In Jerusalem - Rescue parties searching the wrecked building after the outage.At least 11 persons were killed and 17 injured when terrorists bombed and partially destroyed the Goldsmith Club for British officers in Jerusalem. Martial law had been proclaimed in several parts of the country. March 24, 1947. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.)

March 1937. A workshop where an Aviation bomb fell, killing its owner, whose dog could not leave the place where he fell lifeless.

06/23/1937. Remains of Houses from where the Nationalists Combated the Republican Positions, and which were Reduced to Rubble by the Bombers of the Republic.

R.A.F. Blow A Way Of Escape For French Patriots. The breach in the south side of the outer wall. One of the epic operations carried out by the R.A.F. during the war has now been released. On February 18, 1944, a Mosquito wing of the R.A.F. Second Tactical Air Force carried out an attack on the prison at Amiens in an attempt to assist more than a 100 prisoners to escape. The prisoners were French patriots condemned to death for assisting the allies. To obtain the accuracy required it was necessa

Lottefors Trämasssebabrik.

What happened to the Italian city of Rimini least September when it was assaulted by Cena lans, New Zealanders and Creeks of the famous Eight Army is illustrated by the wreckage shown above. A pall of ***** still covered the city several days. November 13, 1944. (Photo by Canadian W.I.B.).

Wreckage in London After Robot Bomb Hit -- Debris litters the street in front of wrecked and Burned buildings in this London area hit by a German one-ton robot bomb. Firemen and Civilian defense workers are on duty in the area. August 2, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Consequences explosion. undated

U.S. Soldiers Patrol Fraulautern -- Two infantrymen of the 65th division, third U.S. Army, advance past a water-filled bomb crater in Fraulautern, Germany, March 20, 1945 as they patrol the town for Nazi stragglers. A wrecked church is in the background. Fraulautorn is 10 miles northwest of Saarbarucken. January 1, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Signal Corps Photo).

Air Raid Damage Children searching for books among the ruins of their school in Coventry after a night raid, 10 April 1941.

U.S. troops fighting in the Walled City, Manila, 27 February 1945

Atomic & Hydrogen Bomb Possible Attacks - War General. January 21, 1955.

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Krawnang, Poerwakarta, Tjikempek. KRAWANG Sector: Believed victims for the destructiveness of Republican troops, companies and factories are responsible for Europeans and Chinese. That she relieves the own countrymen of their work leaves them indifferent. A destroyed factory in the Tjikempek area. 23 July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Amazing First Pictures -- Canton Bombing.Canton Ripped To Shreds By Air Raids -- This is Remains of Primary School -- Remains of the 21st municipal primary school, bombed here by Japanese planes on May 30.Canton has been Blistered, fired and wrecked by hails of bombs and bullets that have hurtled down from Japanese planes. Huge clouds of the machines have blackened the heavens. Have loosed showers of death and devastation in vicious, intermittent raids that have filled canton with hysteria and evacuating, panic stricken citizens. June 27, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975. The Nationalists advanced from their strongholds in the south and west, capturing most of Spain's northern coastline in 1937. They also besieged Madrid and the area to its south and west for much of the war. Capturing large parts of Catalonia in 1938 and 1939, the war ended with the victory of the Nationalists and the exile of thousands of leftist Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in southern France. The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, carried out at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government by its allies, the German air force's Condor Legion and the Itali

Baird Andrew H Collection Air raid damage, Edinburgh. Grassmarket.

destruction in Toledo during the spanish civil war 1937

Anefo photo collection. Explosion in Krimpen to the IJssel. People at the rubble. May 8, 1968. Krimpen aan den IJssel

French Communication Center Wrecked -- The station and yards of the important French railway center of Caen, on the Paris-Cherbourg main line, lie in ruins following the capture of the city by the Allies. The city underwent heavy shelling and aerial bombardment during the battle for the German Stronghold. July 31, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

March 1915. The Destroys of War. What remains of the Rue de Lombart, in Sermaize-Les-Bains (Marne), after the famous battle.

Invasion Of France (French Military) - French Military. September 18, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

air raid attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. by the German air force's Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name: Operation Rügen. The number of victims of the attack is still disputed; the Basque government reported 1,654 people killed.

Berlin- the Capture and Aftermath of War 1945-1947 An aerial (oblique) photograph taken from a De Havilland Mosquito of the RAF Film and Photographic Unit showing badly damaged buildings in the area between Friedrich Hain and Lichtenberg, Berlin.

On Way To Shelter -- Berliners walk past the bomb-damage Hotel Fuerstenhof, In Leipziger Platz, Berlin, on their way to shelters at extreme right is the Haus Vaterland, also damaged by bombs. July 31, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Sweinhart - Yugoslavia. April 16, 1952.

Sousse, Tunisia-The town of Sousse was battered by the bombers of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force before Germans and Italians retreated. Here is a view of one of the streets in which the enemy had placed tank obstructions.

Through aviator bomb destroyed apartment in Trieste.

Munguía (Vizcaya), 1938. Spanish Civil War. Munguía destroyed after the bombings of the Civil War, as the liberating troops found it.

Anefo photo collection. Food provision: Wageningen. Food transports from Wageningen to West Netherlands briefly before the capitulation. A heavily affected church. 1945. Gelderland, Wageningen

05/01/1937. The La Latina district bombed.

05/31/1917. A Terrible catastrophe in France. The First Rescue Work in the Sinking of the Renault Automobile and Airplane Factory in Boulogne.

Dover's Last Shell -- Here in the rubble of Dover's Castle Street, is the last grim sentence of the town's shellfire ordeal - here fell the last round from German guns across the Channel - here, after 1,510 days, with a deafening crack the ordeal ended - and then came the cheers. October 01, 1944.

The Battle of Irún in August 1936 was the critical battle of the Campaign of Gipuzkoa prior to the War in the North, during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army, under Alfonso Beorlegui, captured the city after inflicting heavy damage

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. VENLO vandalism. 1945. Limburg, Venlo

The Palestine Bomb Outrage - A general view of the scene, showing wrecked portion of the hotel in which the British ***** was housed.These picture, just received in London from Palestine by ***** Jerusalem after the bomb explosion which wrecked the British H.Q.91 died in this Bomb wreckage of British Palestine H.Q.General view showing the vast extent of the recent bomb damage caused by Jewish terrorists at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, in which 91 died and many were injured. Further violence is threatened if British imposes new searches and curfews on the Jewish community. July 26, 1946. (Photo by ACME).

Belgium, November 1914. A woman lies dead from the explosion of a German grenade during a bombardment of a Belgian town.

Photograph of Ambulance shattered by the explosion of a shell during World War One. Dated 1915

Anonymous. "Propaganda photography: The sinists make the clearing of their houses after the bombing of Courbevoie". The main Anglo-Saxon objectives of the last bombardment / Paris and its suburbs: houses / workers, churches, etc. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1943-09-04-1943-09-04. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144783-25

American Tanks Rumble Through St. Lo - American tanks rumble, through a debris - littered street in the French town of St. Lo, while the battle for the German stronghold is still in progress. German guns, fringing the city,continued to shell doughboy ***** the fallen base. July 21, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Staying and performance of the 8th (4th) Bataljon Regiment Shock troops in the Dutch East Indies. The devastations in the Pasarwijk of Palembang after the actions around the New Year 1946-1947.

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

Italy. sicily. messina earthquake. a year later still believed that some victims are hidden under the rubble. 1909.

Béjar (Salamanca), 1939. Spanish Civil War. Main Altar of the church of El Salvador destroyed after the war.

12/31/1921. Melilla - Occupation of Dar Drius - state in which the Position was found when our Soldiers reconquered it.

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

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

Rescue workers releasing a man from a bomb damaged building, World War II, 1940. Artist: Unknown

08/31/1936. Effects of a bombing.

Overhead view showing the shell and bomb shattered streets of falaise as the Canadians found it. Falaise, the target for ***** forces in the Caen sector have been ***** has now Fallen to the Canadians. Gaining falaise, the line-up between Allied in this sector and those in the Argentan sector is nearly completed the only opposition comes from isolated element if German armoured and infantry divisions who are striving to keep the ***** open in an effort to extract slower moving infantry. August 18, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Houses incurred by artillery's shot in Podgora at Görz.

Bomb Damage To Telephone Center, St. Lo France, 30 July 1944.

Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 Civil Defence rescue workers dig amongst the rubble following a devastating V1 attack in the Highland Road and Lunham Road area of Upper Norwood. Several steel helmets and spades can be seen in the foreground, as the workers use their bare hands to move debris out of the way.

Berlin War File - Germany. June 4, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

General Bomb, Fires etc. April 18, 1942.

BOMBARDEO DE LA GRAN VIA - GUERRA CIVIL EN MADRID. Location: EXPOSICION DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA.

American troops move through the burned out business district of Manila, Philippines on the way to the front during the Battle of Manila, 1945

07/31/1916. A formidable fire in Cheste (Valencia). State of the altar where the fire that destroyed the parish church started. Photo: Peris -Approximate date.

Singapore front damage. February 16, 1942.

Battle of Cambrai, 8 October 1918

06/30/1914. The Tremendous Catastrophe of Salem. Ruins of some of the Numerous Buildings Destroyed by a Very Violent Fire in the aforementioned North American city.

Infantry ***** out the ***** left in Nutterden. April 16, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

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

Lydin Johnson with American troops in Vietnam 1965

By grenade hits destroyed post office building in Grado 31.10.17. .

Anefo photo collection. Destructions Middelburg bombing 1940. Gortstraat. 1940. Middelburg, Zeeland

Anefo photo collection. Explosion in British camp in Hoek van Holland. September 1, 1958. Hoek van Holland

Anefo photo collection. Bennebroekschool on fire in the A. Schelfhoutstraat in Amsterdam. March 10, 1963. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

D-Day, Allied Soldiers after the Normandy Invasion, 1944

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.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Irene Brigade. Dutch soldiers training exercise combating enemy snipers. February 1944. Britain

Sello, destruction. .

Havoc in Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale in North London. On the night of March 7th 1918, when a brilliant aurora facilitated their flight, two of seven or eight enemy aeroplanes penetrated over London.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Collapse in The Hague from the potato package in the Elzemoerstraat. September 2, 1963. The Hague, South Holland

Bavarian city of Nuremberg following its capture by U.S. Army in a battle of April 17-21, 1945. In the distance, is the twin-spired Lorenz Church; on the right surrounded with rubble, is a statue of Kaiser William I. World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_8_80)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bandoeng. Extinguish a fire from a scoutscar in a destroyed bandong. 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The Wasaskjulet (depicted - name).Wasaskjulet (depicted - name)

French Blow Up a Bridge near the Western Front -- The scene at a point near the western front "Somewhere in France" after the French troops had blown up a bridge to hinder the advance of any possible enemy patrols. November 10, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Part of the former within Gasthuis (Amsterdam) cracked (gorge 82); Police officers come out after being locked up. 24 May 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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