War Ruins and Battlegrounds

Photographs depicting the aftermath of major battles, showcasing devastated landscapes, trench conditions, and destruction from World Wars, revealing the impact of warfare.

Photograph showing the ruined tennis court and terraces of the District Commissioner's bungalow at Kohima, Burma, 1944. Kohima, a vital link in the Manipur Road, was the scene of extremely heavy fighting between the British and Japanese forces in Burma in April to June 1944. Date: 1944

06/01/1918. The English in France. A Railway Locomotive Depot Installed by the British Army.

Ships Sunk - Destroyed By The Enemy (Includes Survivors - Sea Rescues Explosions) - British Navy. November 11, 1945.

08/01/1909. The foothills of the Sidi Musa camp.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Large purification action in the W-Brigade area. Middle Java. Purification campaign in the field of the W-Brigade. 1-11 R.I. Did 2 weeks out. By Kali's, over shaky bridges and by abandoned Kampongs. For example, the infantryman shows what it is worth. A shaky bamboo bridge over a bustling waterfall. March 15, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Werk Hermann. Standing point: Southeastern site.Tarted on 2.5.1916. .

The Swiss Avalanche Disasters -- A striking picture showing the village of Vals-Platz in the Grisons, houses wrecked and buried under the mass of snow which swept down from the mountains. 16 bodies have so far been recovered while others, together with cattle and lives took are still beneath the ruins. January 25, 1951. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Oil fires Palembang (reproductions). Palembang: A heavy smoke mass hangs above the pendopo oil fields in the Palembangse. On the flank of the grounds, two wells were placed by the TNI Tentara Nasional Indonesia, two others were burned in flame by Alang-Alang grass. The damage turned out to be less serious than initially regarded. July 28, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Photo collection First World War. American troops during combat acts on the western front. 1917

'Le Fort de Vaux, repris le 2 novembre; les abords du fort de Vaux par le Sud', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". (Fort Vaux, recaptured November 2; seen from the south)

St Paul Torpedé district (April 12, 1918 at 22:30) WAR 1914-1918. The Saint-Paul Torpedé neighborhood (April 12, 1918 at 22:30). Paris (IVEme arr.), April 12, 1918. Photograph of Godefroy Ménangé.

Captured Ottoman Turkish Guns - Iraq, WWI Date: circa 1917

Yorktown. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

The San Juan Earthquake was the largest seismic movement that occurred in the province of San Juan, on October 27, 1894, Argentina. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Battery delivery at Tolmein.

Trench built to block the Toledo highway on November 7, 1936, and which contained the advance on Madrid in said Sector. At the time of taking the photo, the trench was already in the rear.

'The Battle of La Malmaison; During our artillery fire: explosion of a large French shell on the concrete casemates of the German machine gunners of Mont-des-Singes', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration , Paris, 1924.

Photograph of British Soldiers taking a view of enemy lines from the roof of a ruined Belgium farm building. Dated 1915

Shots from the stage at the Russian war showplatz.

Photograph of a house in the native quarter wrecked by a Japanese bomb during an air raid. Dated 1942

Destruction caused by riots between Hindus and Muslims in Noakhali East Bengal, November 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Rescue and Salvage Efforts After Attack on Pearl Harbor

Confederate entrenchments at edge of woods, Palmer's field, on Orange Turnpike. No. 5011, Title from item, Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

U.S. Soldiers Fire Bazooka Gun At German Position In Italy -- A U.S. soldier (left) fires a bazooka, a new American rocket-propelled gun, to blast a German observation post established in a farmhouse on the Anzio beachhead of the Allied Fifth Army in Western Italy. American troops dislodged the enemy from this Position. May 22, 1944. (Photo by United States Office of War Information).

First World War battlefield scene, 1914-1918.Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

The German Withdrawal To the Hindenburg Line, March-april 1917

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bandoeng sector. a destroyed building, of which the water pipe has jumped. July 21, 1947. Bandoeng, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

The British Army in Burma 1945 Men of the West Yorkshire Regiment advance through the ruins of Meiktila, 28 February 1945.

Dumbled in the rocks and barbed wire barriers on the front in the Dolomites, Henri de Rothschild (attributed to), 1916 photograph Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian front 1916. Dolomites photographic support gelatin silver print war (+ land forces). shelter ~ military service (+ warfare in forest). barbed wire (+ land forces) Dolomites

Forfeited guns ca. February 18, 1914.

Students Work On Roman Finds AT Lullingstone -- A general view of the excavation site at Lullingstone, Lieut. Col. Meates is seen over in the far left corner chatting with a student. Housewives, schoolboys, students and professional men are helping archeologists to dig up the past on the site of a Roman villa which is being excavated at Lullingstone, Kent, Under the direction of Lieut Col. Meates, the "diggers" are working on a flight of Roman steps considered to be 1800yrs old. August 29, 1950.

''Le front pittoresque; Villages de Paillot et Terriers a flanc de coteaux: Une ecurie confortable', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Deventer. Damage after the Battle of Deventer. Links Hotel Bellevue. April 1945. Deventer, Overijssel

Confederate entrenchments in the woods near Spotswood's House. No. 5014, Title from item, Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness", Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.

Japs Fall Before Marines With Flame Throwers -- Bodies of three Japanese soldiers, caught by U.S. Marines with flame throwers lie among the wreckage on Tarawa Island where the Marines landed Nov. 20 in one of the fiercest engagements in Marine history. November 29, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Windhoos at Camping Duinoord on Ameland, three deaths and hundreds of injured, having ravage at the campsite. August 11, 1972. Ameland, Friesland

San Juan de Mozarrifar (Zaragoza), 07/11/1923. Image of the storm. Aspect of the floods that have destroyed the town of San Juan de Mozarrifar.

Image of the destruction by the storm of 13/14 January 1916 in the port of Spakenburg (municipality of Bunschoten): a ship thrown in a destroyed shed.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Madura. Destroyed and fired chinese properties in PamekaSan. August 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies, PamekaSan

Anefo photo collection. Wieringermeerpolder. December 8, 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Sweden (depicted - name).Sweden (depicted - name)

Fire exercise on F 2, 1939 Fire exercise, fire extinguishing on F 2 Roslagens flying fleet. Covered outbuilding.

Paris Printer's, wrecked by aviator's bomb

Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.

Panorama over Avesta Krylbo station after the explosion of a German ammunition train.

Booty - War File. August 29, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Destroyed houses of golf plate. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Padang. The Pasar in Loekboek Aloeng has burned down by the TNI. Also in the Padangse, the political of scorched earth has turned against Chinese, as well as indigenations. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Valencia, October 1957. Image of the damage caused by the flood Photo: Teodoro Naranjo Domínguez.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Kenali Asem - Djambi. In the early morning of the 30th December 1948, the Dutch troops was struck to Djambi (Sumatra). This place was occupied without opposition at 8 am .. December 30, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Potato bark fire on the field

Soviet Cemetary at Worobyanka Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.

German soldiers with captured French barricade, near Paris, June 1940. The first German troops entered Paris, which had been declared an open city by the French government, on 14 June. The photographer is unknown.

Sweden (depicted - name).Sweden (depicted - name)

The area of "Wolf's Shape", the head of Adolf Hitler's headquarters - the remaining of one of the bunkers; from a series of photographs to the article by Miroszek Azembski "in the field of" Mierci Field of harvest "," Wiatr "1953, No. 49, p. 20; Pra 1953 (1953-00-00-1953-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Middelburg. Watered under water in inumentation area. 1945. Middelburg, Zeeland

GRANADA. ALHAMA DE GRANADA. TERREMOTO EN LA PROVINCIA DE GRANADA. GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

12/29/1910. The storm in the Canary Islands. Destruction Caused on the beach of Santa Cruz de Tenerife by the Storm, which exposed the German cable and destroyed the gas pipeline.

The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859 Aftermath of the Siege of Lucknow. La Martiniere College, the first objective to be recaptured on 14 November 1857 by British forces under the command of Sir Colin Campbell during the Relief of Lucknow.

Piles of Solid Shot, Canister, etc., Arsenal Grounds; Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Bridge, American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia, USA, Photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1865

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

A view of the emergency ward tent being used by personnel from the 32nd Combat Support Hospital Unit during an exercise held at the 68th Medical Group, Camp Paul Bloomquist. Base: Ziegenberg Country: West Germany (FRG)

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