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Horrors of war. Ruins of a German border village which was systematically destroyed by retiring French troops. Not even the snow could cover the tracks of destruction.

Reichstag in ruins. Berlin, Germany.....the much bombed former home of the German Reichstag shown in his present shape. Bombed into ruins by Allied hammering from the air and by long range guns. Another momento of war lies before the Reichstag building in the form of a heavy gun.

Normandy now. A view of the pre-fasricated town which had arisen among the ruins of Lisieux. So far the inhabitants are not yet blessed with their own water systen, they share the communal tap. Nearly two years have passed since the allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches, but the debris of war still litters coast and countryside.

U.S. troops in Pontfarcy. U.S. infantry troops pass an German tank while searching among the ruins of Pontfarcy. The building in the background still smoulders, testimony to the fierceness of the American artillery barrage which preceded the fall of the town during the drive to the Brest Peninsula.

Canadian troops and jeeps among the ruins of Emmerich, where the Candians spent three days blasting and burning the enemy out of fortified houses, foto krantenartikel Haas

1st Suffolk Recce Patrol (8th Bde., 3rd British, 8th Corps) enters ruins of chateau de Geijsteren. Awaiting the all clear signal of the patrol leader. The castle was held by a party of German troops who put up stiff resistance until the Typhoons dropped them over the Maas. Een bezoeker van de Beeldbank schrijft: ''Kasteel Geijsteren werd in de nacht van 30 november op 1 december veroverd door de Suffolks. ...

An Italian civilian, seriously injured, wanders deazedly from the ruins caused by a German time bomb which exploded in the Naples Post Office several days after the Germans had retreated from the city. An Italian boy, also injured, holds his back where he was struck by flying debris. Many Italian civilians, men, women and children, were caught in the explosion and either killed of injured. THose who ...

Keeping a watchful eye on Japanese positions from a gun emplacement on a hill overlooking the ruins of the former Dutch Barracks at Balikpapan, Netherlands Borneo, an Australian soldier also surveys dozens of the landing draft offshore which landed the combined Australian and royal netherlands indies army troops on july 1st, 1945. NI 3157