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Foto van binnenstad van Nijmegen met Waalbrug op de achtergrond. Datum 28 september 1944. Tekst op achterkant: 'Dava Still media Depository (...) Holland... A panoramic view of the city Nijmegen, and the Nijmegen bridge over the Waal (Rhine) river in the background. The city as hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling'.

Bombardementen, beschietingen en andere oorlogshandelingen veroorzaakten overal in Nederland veel schade. Hier ziet men een deel van Nijmegen met een groot aantal beschadigde huizen. Op de achtergrond de brug over de rivier de Waal. 'A panoramic view of the city of Nijmegen, Holland, and the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal (Rhine) River in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment ...

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...

Naval guns support allied landings. Somewhere off the Nazi-held French coastline, the British battleship H.m.S. Rodney pounds Hitler's defenses with volley after volley of 16-inch shells. Under cover of terrific bombardment, Allied landing parties successfully established beachheads at several points in the north of Frane June 6, 1944

Enemy installations on Biak Island fired by U.S. warships. A plume of white smoke rises through the tropical trees on Biak Island, in Dutch New Guinea, indicating a hit on enemy target, as a U.S. destroyer pours shells into Japanese fortifications on the stronghold in the Schoutens group of the Southwest Pacific. Aerial and naval bombardment cleared the way for American forces which landed on the island ...

U.S. anti-tank troops take cover in France. A U.S. anti-tank unit, battling German armored forces in western Normandy, nugs the ground while enemy shells drop near their position. The Americans, less than 200 yards from the German lines, are part of the forces that on July 31, 1944, liberated the town of Avraches. The Germans in that area were making a last desperate stand to stem the American drive ...

Belgian boms dispsal units. Belgian soldiers of one of the bomb disposal units prepare 53 155mm. German artillery shells, the equivalent of two tons of explosives, for detonation. In their hasty retreat after the failure of the Rundstedt break-through in the Ardennes, the Germans left thousands of tons of munitions, which the bomb disposal units now are destroying for the safety of people living in ...

the 40 m.m. guns of an Allied warship pour shells into Japanese beach positions at Hollandia preparing the way for the assault. Members of the crew( top, right) watch the effects of the bombardment. On Saturday April 22nd, in a surprise assault on the Humboldt Bay area in Dutch New Guina, Allied forces of the South-West Pacific Zone scored a rapid victory in the capture of the town of Hollandia and ...

U.S. troops train for Pacific action. U.S. troops at a replacement center in Hawaii for a stream while using improvised rafts for their clothing, rifles and other equipment. Practical training for action against the Japanese is given in the program, which includes 44 hours of training per week with lectures, group discussions, orientation courses and movies furnishing the background for the course. ...