Historical War Footage

Black and white clips of various wartime landscapes, depicting destruction and military actions during significant historical global conflicts.

SAIGON - 1968 - Firefighters use hoses to spray foam on a flaming C-47 airplane at Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Saigon, Vietnam.

destruction by departing German army in the town of Neuvelle, during the Second Battle of Artois, from 9 May 18 June 1915. the Western Front during the First World War.

Dust Storm, Baca County, Colorado, USA, J.H. Ward, Farm Security Administration, April 14, 1935

Segunda guerra mundial (1939-1945). Soldados ingleses patrullando entre las ruinas de la ciudad de Capua, en la Campania (Italia) en octubre de 1943.

Quaere at Levico. Main exercise of the storm battalion.

The Capture Of Caen -- The town of Caen was captured today, July 9th, after the offensive opened by British and Canadian troops of general Dempsey's Second Army at Dawn on July 8th. This R.A.F. reconnaissance picture, which was taken in the first week of the Normandy campaign shows fires burning in the town. July 01, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photo).

Dynamiting Snipers on Tarawa -- Smoke and debris fly into the air as Marines use dynamite to blast a Jap snipers' pillbox in the cleaning up operations in Tarawa. January 3, 1943. (Photo by Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph)

Leyte Island, Phillipines: November 1, 1944 U.S. troops wade ashore from their amphibious craft onto a still smoldering beach from the pre-invasion bombardment.

American Planes Attack Japanese Airfiled On Formonsa -- ***** of dense smoke trail from Japanese ***** lined up on the Shinchiku airdrome in Formosa, an island 650 miles from the Japanese mainland, during a strafing and bombing raid by U.S. Army Air Forces. June 02, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Office Of War Information).

Reims , Marne , Champagne , France , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France). Rear-front, factory , workshop, ruins, rear, bombing, rubble, industrial , machine equipment, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, France, Reims, rue des 3 Raisinets

Pearl Harbor Burns After Surprise Attack -- Pearl Harbor, U.S. military and naval stronghold in the Pacific, lies under an ominous pall of black smoke December 7 shortly after Japanese planes bombed the Harbor and surrounding military objectives while Japan's "Peace Negotiators" still talked of peace to Secretary Hull in Washington and the United States Ambassador to Japan was being told in Tokyo that Nipon desired peace. The photo was made from Mt. Tantalus, behind Honolulu. December 16, 1941.

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Russian soldiers raise the Soviet Flag next to the battered sculptures of the Brandenburg Gate in the final European battle of World War II. May 2, 1945 photo by Evgenii Khaldei.

Anti-Aircraft Action In The South Pacific:During the naval battle of the Santa Cruz Islands for control of the Solomons, Japanese torpedo planes attacked U.S. ships. This picture, taken at the height of an anti-aircraft barrage, shows one of the attacking planes ablaze (see arrow). A few seconds later, it crashed into the sea directly in front of the U.S. destroyer at the lower right. The other Japanese planes were driven off. January 18, 1943. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).

Anefo photo collection. NDSM DegwaterLating Rijgja. December 17, 1950. Amsterdam

Vintage Photograph. Country store continues to burn while crowd is on watching.

Photograph of a cloud of dense smoke where an oil tank had been destroyed by the R.A.F. at Dunkirk. Dated 1942

Desborough Mort Pty. Ltd. Fire - September-1935. September 26, 1953.

Flamethrower in action.

Tornado striking a town in the Mid-West of the USA, 1930s.

Area Near Hingham, MA ,. Photographs of the First Naval District

Two reinforced concrete aircraft hangars at the Ahmed Al Jaber Airfield show the results of a coalition bombing strike during Operation Desert Storm. The hangars had been suspected of housing Iraqi aircraft. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS).

Standal accident

Zaragoza, 7-12-1979. Photographs obtained by Blanco y Negro of the summary of the fire at the Corona de Aragón hotel, which was practically full. The entire Zaragoza fire station participated in the rescue of victims, evacuating hotel guests through the windows and balconies using ladders installed on the Via Imperial. Some people, who were able to reach the terraces, were also evacuated by Army helicopters.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. STOKES cloud with blimp & personnel in foreground. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Horses Saved From Fire -- These horses were led to safety today after falling plane set barn afire. Plane tail portion in center foreground.***** plane set fire to a barn in Montana, USA. Nine horses were rescued ***** barn. Tail portion of the plane can be seen in centre foreground. August 9, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photo collection Government information service. Atomic bombs, explosions. October 24, 1952

German assault on advancing French forces. Trench warfare in World War One 1915

Bruneck, hand grenade course. Trial goals for hand grenades. .

Firing on Kanondäck ...

Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion, December 6, 1917

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