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Rebels defend Toledo from Government troops to the last shot. Three young rebel soldiers trying vain to keep the Government troops at bay in a shell-shattered street in Toledo. By shelling the city the Government forces finally drove out the Fascists and turned parts of the twon into a ruin.

U.S. Navy carrier-based planes bomb Okinawa. Smoke billows high above Japanese installations on Okinawa, Japanese Ryukyus (Loochoos) island base 362 miles (579 km.) from Japan prior to the March 31, 1945, landings by U.S. Tenth Army troops. A heavy pre-invasion bombing and strafing by more than 1,500 U.S. naval aircraft, plus a naval bombardement of more than 5,000 tons of shells, on the Japanese defenses ...

Britse troepen bevrijden Blerick aan de Maas. War Office Photograph No. B.12532 (XP). Original wartime caption: This woman was making her way from the town when the enemy started shelling the road, she was hit in the arm. She is here seen being assisted along the road.

Berlin - July, 1945. This is the Rechtstag in Berlin in July 1945. Before the gutted remains stands a battered anti-aircraft gun. Allied bombs and shells wrought havoc in the German capital, reducing it virtually to a pile of rubble.

U.S. soldier fires at snipers. A soldier of the First U.S. Army fires at a sniper on the outskirts of Wershau, west of the Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn. Clouds of smoke rise from the town as shells from American artillery pount German troops, Wershau is five miles south east of Limburg, cleared by armor and troops of the First Army March 27, 1945.

Foto van 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'.

Cologne captured by U.S. Troops. War machines of the First U.S. Army line a street in Cologne waiting for the order to advance to the center of the Rhine capital, cleared of the Nazis March 6, 1945. Residential sections of the third largest city in the Reich were little damaged by the fierce bombing and shelling which preceded the end of German resistance.

Flame-throwing tank in action on Okinawa. An American flame-throwing tank bursts into action against Japanese cave defenses which honeycomb the rocky ridges of Okinawa island. With the help of the rugged and difficult terrain, the Japanese have stubbornly contested possession of the strategic island since the Americans invaded it on March 31, 1945. By May 9, U.S. forces were within one mile of the ...

U.S. warship blasts Japanese shore targets on Saipan. Fourteen-inch guns of an American warship belch smoke and flame as they hurl shells on Japanese shore installations on Saipan Island, paving the way for landings of U.S. troops. American Marines who stormed ashore on the Marianas base in the Central Pacific on June 14, 1944, were protected by a heavy naval and air bombardment similar to the Allied ...

A powerful shovel tackles the seemingly hopeless task of reopening the streets of Valognes, France, filled with debris from Allied shelling which levelled many building before the Nazi fred.

Marauder passes over Cherbourg Peninsula. A B-26 Marcuder of the Ninth U.s. Air Force skins over a portion of the Cherbourg Peninsula where German troops are making a final desperate stand. Smoke can be seen rising from bombed targets below. In one of the greatest aerial and land bombardments in history June 23, 1944, the Allies unleashed thousands of tons of bombs and shells on the steel and concrete ...

War is over, killing goes on. This man is symptomatic of many grown-ups who were hurt by carelessness with explosives. His son had brought home some sticks of black stuff, telling his mother that they were great for firing the stove. When one day the stove was not burning fast enough to get the potatoes boiling the mother thought of the little black sticks, lifted the pan and threw a handfull in the ...