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Belgium is ready for anything. A huge Belgium gun ready to hurl its shells at any approaching enemy, in a coastal fortification.

French civillians aid American troops. French civillians help American troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force unload shells from barges to trucks on a beachhead somewhere in Normandy.

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"

The heavy brigade. Rows of big shells made at a British shell factory - one of the biggest in Europe - which is busy with orders from the Ministry of Supply.

Vire, Normandy. The aerial view of Vire in Normandy shows the destruction it suffered during the fight for its liberation. In the foreground is the famous 12th to 14th Century Church of Notre Dame. The east wing, containing the ambulatory with its 15th Century carved garnet doorway and the cloisters at the back are badly damaged. The houses around the church are shells.

Belgian bomb disposal units. Grenades, Panzerfausts (German bazookas), mortar shells and small ammunition are prepared for demolishing by Belgian soldiers.

Nazi supply line blasted in Italy. An American soldier examines a train blasted by an attack of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces on the railway yards at Aquila, Italy, during a coordinated operation agains all Nazi supply lines in Italy. These cars were loaded with shells.

The bombardment of Almeria. Survivors of the bombardment sleeping at the entrance to caves in which they had sheltered during the shelling.

Destruction in the Carentan railyard. Tracks and debris from the railroad cars lie strown over the Carentan yard after aerial bombing and naval shellings before the Allies forced the Germans from the town.

How women do men's war jobs. Brawny Women Help Test Big Guns. Three brawny U.S. women ar workers shoulder 90 milimeter shells of a type they experiment with every day at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. At Aberdeen all the fighting tools of the Army and some of the Navy, bombs, shells, guns, bullets, trucks, tanks as well as paints and lubricants are tested. In this work several hundred of American ...

Finland: The Russians concentrated their air raids especially on the district of the workmen-houses, where most of Helsinki's poorer people livee, it was here were most of all people under the raids were killed. More dreadful than the bombs were the granit and stone shells which sprang back from the ground when a bomb hit the ground. A rock in Helsinki's street, which was hit by bombs and thousands ...

Culvert shelters French family. A French family whose home is in Vire obtain temporary shelter in a drainage culvert under a railway while German artillery shells their town in a vain attempt to stem the Allied advance in France. Nine persons made their home here.