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Madrid flats demolished by shells and bombs. A scene of utter desolation in a block of flats bordering Moncloa Park. The whole of the front wall has been torn away by successive shellings, and flooring joists hang in gruesome patterns against a background of rain-dossen wallpaper and broken windows.

' Shells of buildings in the background show the damage done to Hanover by strategic bombing and ground force artillery before 9th US Army troops and tanks catured the Reich city April 10, 1945. In the foreground is the rubble of bombings backed up by the wreckage of buildings that have been subjected to artillery fire. Not a single white flag was raised in Hanover when the Americans first entered ...

War is over, killing goes on. This young idiot proudly displays his war museum of battlefield souvernirs, that has found a place on the mantle in the family's living room. Nobody knows enough about these shells and 'thrower' grenades to take the explosive charge out, if such a thing is at all possible without very great danger. The family does not know either that shells can be subject to spontaneous ...

puinhopen en ruïnes van gebouwen in Nijmegen Tekst achterop: "Dava still media depository (...) Holland... Rubble and wreckage caused by constant shelling and bombing fills the streets of Nijmegen, Holland"

Carentan railroad yard. American soldiers look at the uprooted rail tracks and wrecked freight cars piled up in the railroad yard in Carentan as a result of aerial and naval shellings before American forces drove the Germans from the French city.