War Destruction and Ruins

Images depict the devastation from aerial bombardments and artillery during conflicts, showcasing piles of rubble and destroyed buildings in various European locations.

Desolated Spain! - The Village of Nules reduced to ruins by aerial bombardment, before it was finally captured by Franco troops. August 02, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
Desolated Spain! - The Village of Nules reduced to ruins by aerial bombardment, before it was finally captured by Franco troops. August 02, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Tegal. The railways on Java enjoyed an international reputation. What has remained about it has not escaped the destruction rage of the TNI. An image of the Poerwokerto station. 24 July 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Purwokerto, Tegal
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First aid for wounded a.d.Piave 17.6.18. .
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Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing image of the end of the war in Europe; effects of the Allied bombings with a train up on end at the Munster station.
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World War Two: A German Heinkel bomber plane is destroyed on a flight into France 1941
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The German army entered Rostov. A column of PzKpfw III tanks goes through a railroad crossing. November 1941
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Photograph showing the ruined Italian town of Cassino, March 1944. Between January and May 1944 the town of Cassino and Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino were completely destroyed as the Allied Fifth Army attempted to push the occupying Nazi troops out of their strong defensive position in the area. Date: 1944
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The motive of the aus army. .
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Houses destroyed on the central square in Canale d'Isonzo, Slovenia, XI Battle of the Isonzo, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 35, September 2, 1917.
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Anefo photo collection. School fired in Leerdam, windows painted with RMS slices. October 22, 1976. Leerdam
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Description: Flacq, Union S E Location: Flacq, Mauritius Date: January 1945 Description: Flacq, Sans Souci S E Location: Flacq, Mauritius Date: January 1945
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''The Pioneer Corps of the British South African Company on the way to Mashonaland; A common occurrence on the road', 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890.
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Soldiers search houses. View of a street with destroyed buildings. Soldiers of the Allies are going to search the houses.
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Anefo photo collection. Destructions Middelburg bombing 17, 1940. 1940. Middelburg, Zeeland
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Inspect Tested ***** -- ***** W. Meyres second from left). Peoria, Ill., Talks ***** reporters inspecting a 14-inch German armour plate made by the works, during a demonstration yesterday at the naval ***** here. Two holes at right were made in German tests, while ***** left were made in navy tests. The navy projectiles fired into the ***** rest on beam at lower left. May 23, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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12/16/1983. Fire at the Alcalá 20 nightclub in Madrid.
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German soldiers pass through a Russian village destroyed before their arrival as part of Stalin's Scorched Earth Policy 1941
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Material magazine burned by Italians in Le Grazie. .
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03/17/1937. The school of Agronomists clearly shows the Effects Produced by the second Blasting.
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Charleston, South Carolina Palmetto reinforcements on the channel side of Fort Sumter. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Charleston (S.C.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Forts & fortifications, United States, South Carolina, Charleston.
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First Illumination Of National Monument On March 4, 1885, Inauguration Of President Cleveland, Artist Unknown
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The Verbicaro street where the revolt began, Italy, photograph by Cesari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 37, September 10, 1911.
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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.
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War album 107, picture 32878.
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Photograph of View of Pearl Harbor Navy Yard from a Site Near Mobile Base Hospital #2View of Pearl Harbor, Navy Yard from a site near Mobile Base Hospital #2 during Japanese attack, Dec. 7 1941.
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Black and white photograph of France during World War II (1939-1945) before the Armistice signed with Germany; a tank driving through a city in ruins.
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Station #117, U.S. Veterans' Hospital, effluent from sewage filters, Rutland, Mass., Dec. 15, 1930 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, watershed sanitary conditions
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Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Hedel. Destruction in Hedel. 1945. Hedel
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''La Vierge Doree D'Albert', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.
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Destruction by the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.
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The Khmer Rouge, or Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. It is remembered primarily for its brutality and policy of social engineering which resulted in millions of deaths. Its attempts at agricultural reform led to widespread famine, while its insistence on absolute self-sufficiency, even in the supply of medicine, led to the deaths of thousands from treatable diseases (such as malaria). Brutal and arbitrary executions and torture carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1976 and 1978, are considered to have constituted a genocide. Several former Khmer Rouge cadres are currently on trial for war crimes in Phnom Penh.
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JAPANESE CLIMB CHINESE WALL Photo, taken in Manchuria, shows Japanese infantry swarming up the steps of the main entrance to Chinchow, occupied by the Japanese. 1-19-32.
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1940S Beach At Tarawa As The 6Th Regiment Of Marines Lands
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Photograph showing the Cathedral in Aachen, Germany, after fighting between the German and Allied armies, October 1944. Fortunately Aachen Cathedral survived the battle largely intact. Adolf Hitler, the German Fuhrer, gave the order that there should be 'no surrender' in Aachen, making the battle that raged there particularly brutal and destructive. Date: 1944
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Watermodramp 1953 Nederlandse soldiers in the area affected by the disaster near Zijpe.
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Company F, 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division Soldiers move past the General Post Office building on their way to assault the walled city of Intramuros Feb. 23, 1945, in Manila, Philippines.
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Anefo photo collection. Occupation of the island of Pampus by artists from protest on government policy on the visual artists arrangement (BKR). Demonstrators with banner "We are not Afraid or Lubbers". June 23, 1983. Noord-Holland
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05/10/1937. Damage caused to a house by a grenade.
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Anefo photo collection. Destruction: IJmuiden. Rubble hills along a street. 1945. Ijmuiden
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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.
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6th Port Labor Control Office In Naples Italian civilians line up outside the 6th port labor control office in Naples to Obtain employment in the port area under allied supervision. Ten thousand will be employed in the near future. All types of labor, from stevedores down to dock laborers, are hired. The common laborers gets 50, lire a day, stevedores 80 lire. Wages are fixed by 5th Army officials. March 02, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Clastre i.e. Clastres in the Aisne
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Hundreds of rifles are shown on the quay of Dover, England. English forces arm themselves before sailing towards France. Dated 1940.
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Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Hedel. Destruction in Hedel. 1945. Hedel
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Bringing an Esse through the 1st Royal Saxon Pioneer Battalion No. 12Bringing an Esse by K. S. 1. Pioneer Battalion No. 12
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Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99,300 people (2/9). Date: 1923
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Colour Photograph of American soldiers patrolling in a destroyed French Village. Dated 1944
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Strasse in Dixmuiden.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Destruction and pillage , Belgium , Diksmuide