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Madrid, as Franco forces see it: unusual pictures. One of the bullet-riddled schools here, occupied by 'reds', seen from the School of Agriculture. There is always the battle of rifle and machine gun fire and the sound of exploding shells near both these schools.

French priest clears debris from shell-torn church. A French priest straightens a painting in his shell-damaged church in Bruyeres, France. He is wearing a helmet because the town is still undergoing heavy shelling by the retreating Germans.

'The Junker's bomber J 87. The one engined two sets bomber from the Junker's air craft with a Junker's air craft plant 'Juno 210' of 680 HP. 'Ju 87' is armed by 2 M.Guns and is able to carry 250 to 500 kg. of bomb shells. Als Sturzbomber ist es mit einer Sturzflugbremse ausgerüstet, die die Sturzfluggeschwindigkeit begrenzt und es ermöglicht, nahe an das Ziel heranzukommen, ohne dass die Besatzung ...

Church salvage work begins in Normandy. The church tower in St. Marie du Mont is reparable despite shelling of the structure, used by the nazis as an observation post before American forces drove them from the area. French civilians and American soldiers working under supervision of the Allied Civil Affairs committee have already repaired the walls of the damaged edifice.

U.S. services held in Wartorn German church. U.S. soldiers attend services in a war-damaged church of Ubach, Germany, where great holes in a wall (right) and a razed block of pews (left) are silent witnesses to the shelling which preceded the occupation of the town October 5, 1944.

Women watch terrific bombardment of Madrid from across river. Smoke from bombs and shells rising over Madrid in clouds as women watch the terrific bombardment from across the river.

Allied Military Government set up in Florence. A crowd roads the proclamation by General Sir Harold Alexander giving the various orders of the Allied Military Government and the Allied Control Commision foolowing the centry of South Affrican units into the outskirts of Florence. Despite interference from German snipers and shelling from enemy positions outside the city, officers of the Allied Military ...

Third U.S. Army captures Frankfurt. Third U.S. Army infantrymen take cover behind a tank on a street in Frankfurt cloaked with the smoke and dust of exploding shells during the street fighting for the Reich's ninth largest city. The Third U.S. Army, commanded by Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr., captured Frankfurt.

Foto van het verwoeste stadscentrum van Nijmegen na 22 februari 1944. het originele bijschrift luidt: 'A panoramic view of the city of Nijmegen, and the Nijmegen bridge over the Waal river in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling'.

The shell-torn control tower of the Graf Spee. One of the first pictures to reach London of the British shell-havoc on board the German pocet battleship Graf Spee, after she hade taken refuge in Montevideo harbour. The control tower can be seen in the picture with circles marking the spots where British shells burst during the action. Picture taken at Montevideo after the arrival of the warship and ...

U.S. hospital unit helps young German. U.S. surgeons and medical orderlies perform an operation on a nineteen-year-old German prisoner, captured during the bitter fighting in Normandy. The prisoner has two gunshot wounds and a fractured leg. One of the gunshots has punctured his intestines and bladder, necessitating an immediate operation to save his life. All the time the unit worked in a tent near ...

They saved a bridge for the Allies. Four French boys, the two in the center only fourteen years old, who stopped the retreating Nazis from blowing up a bridge in Le Mans, France. While German machine gunners and an American tank were exchanging fire across a river, one of the boys, who had seen the Germans preparing to destroy the bridge swarmed onto the bridge under fire, followed by the three others. ...