Civilian citizens in Bangkok, Thailand in World War II. View of a street in Bangkok. Buses, streetcars, and vehicles on the road. Soldiers douse the fire caused by American bombing. Soldiers and civilians fight fire.
United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft flies over Bangkok in Siam, now Thailand, where river Chao Phraya River passes across the city. Aircraft drops two bombs on both sides of the Rama VI bridge which links the eastern and western banks of the river. Bombs impact and smoke rises. Bangkok is engulfed in a sheet of thick smoke. Aircraft flies over the city. The B-24 drops two more bombs close to the first two targets. Bombs impact and smoke rises upwards. (World War II period).