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.
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Battle of the Bzura. Polish cavalry in Sochaczew in 1939.World War II
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Evacuation of Crete. October 15, 1941. (Photo by Commonwealth Department of Information).
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Bombed Area near Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan, ACME War Pool Correspondent, September 1945
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US Civil War. Atlanta Campaign, May 7 Sept. 2, 1864. Siege of Atlanta, July 22 through Sept. 2, 1864. REBEL WORKS IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, was photographed by George Barnard. In this version, Barnard manipulated the image by adding back-lit clouds from a separate negative. In the process, he cropped the top off the tallest tree (BSLOC_2018_9_75)
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Stalingrad. 1942. At the request of Von Paulus, Colonel General Von Richthofen, commander of the IV Luftflotte, tried to make up for the lack of artillery with aviation bombs.
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Guan, American base
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (20 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Image of allied B-17 bombers above the Jacobikerk in Utrecht, after the end of a food dropping, probably on the Lage Weide in Utrecht.
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Exhibit Supply Company Picture Post Card, Scene from "The Pony Express". "Indians burning a white settlement." This item is a picture post card used as an exhibit in the case of J. Frank Meyer, Trading as the Exhibit Supply Company v. Louis Hurwitz, Trading as United Postcard Supply Company. Issued by Exhibit Supply Company, this post card features a scene from the film "The Pony Express.".
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Berchtesgaden, Germany. The Stars And Stripes Are Raised Over The Former Headquarters Of Field Marchal Keital, Chief Of The German Genreal Staff.
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The Tunisian Port of Sousse After Allied Bombing, 4 June 1943 The dockyard at Sousse after the bombing.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Djambi. After the occupation of Djambi (Sumatra). Destructions in the city. January 2, 1949. Indonesia, Jambi, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Military and Atomic Energy Commission personnel viewing the detonation of Project 'Open Shot', Nevada. Operation Tumbler, April 1952 (BSLOC_2015_2_13)
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First World War (1915). German Ludwieshafen factory being bombed by 18 French planes. Illustration by A. Matignon (1915).
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Texas City Fire Aerial.
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An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb was dropped. Dated 1945
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990424-M-7028L-001. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division
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The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Here a bombed building in the Finnish capitol Helsinki. December 1939. Photo Kristoffersson ref 92-4.
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Bomb Attacks Wreck Panther Lair At Hanover, Germany. Complete Turret Assemblies, Waiting To Be Lifted On To Tank Bodies, Are Inspected By Three Soldiers Of The U.S. 9Th Army.
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Spectacular Fire At Iwakuni, Japan -- The Royal Air Force officers and men at work quelling the fire.When fire broke out in the 500,000. gallon of high octane aviation fuel dump at Iwakuni, Japan, a magnificent job was done by officers and men of B.C. Air who saved more than three quarters of the dump. Within a matter of minutes after the alarm, officers and men from all parts of the camp helped to remove the 45 gallon drums of petrol to make way for the Royal Air Force Fire fighters, who directed their foam in the flames. October 17, 1946. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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China established the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base on 16 October 1959 with Soviet assistance in selection of the site, with its headquarters at Malan, about 125 km (78 mi) northwest of Qinggir. The first Chinese nuclear bomb test, codenamed '596', was tested at Lop Nur in 1964. The PRC detonated its first hydrogen bomb on June 17, 1967. Until 1996, 45 nuclear tests were conducted.
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Vintage Photograph. Cloud formation at peak shortly before disintegration from mushroom shape
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Haifa. Ceremony at night on May 15, 1949 on a square in Haifa at the gesture of the commemoration of the first birthday of Israel independence. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel
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"USS Franklin (CV-13) returning to Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs following Jap bomb hit on March 19, 1945 in Inland Sea, Japan. New York's skyline looks good to the men as ship steams into New York Harbor with "Old Glory" flying." Caption on Negative Sleeve: "The USS Franklin - gallant ESSEX-class carrier, badly damaged by enemy bombs in the Japanese Inland sea, March 19, 1945, returns to the Brooklyn Navy Yard under her own power.".
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