Bomb damage in Bucharest, Romania due to Allied bombings during World War II. View of the equestrian statue of King Carol I, with the Royal Palace (Calea Victoriei 49-53, București 010063, Romania) wrecked by Allied bombings, in the background. People move past damaged foundation of King Carol statue and Royal Palace. The Romanian Athaeneum (1, Strada Benjamin Franklin 1-3, București 030167, Romania). The Royal Palace. A costumed guard outside the Palace. Damage caused to the Throne Room. King's throne. Painting of King Carol II. Rubble littered on the road. Destroyed and burnt buildings. Policemen outside a wrecked building. Men and women remove rubble from the streets. Women carrying fresh cement. Men clean the floor inside a building. Wrecked offices of 'Soc. Romano-Americana de Petrol', the Romanian American Oil Company.
Aftermath of Allied bombings in Bucharest, Romania during World War II. A sign reads 'Soc. Romano Americano de petrol' St Catherine school. A Romanian guard on duty on a raised platform. Nazi prisoners in a courtyard as a soldier moves past barbed wire fence. Nazi officers imprisoned in a school. Officers read books and papers. Imprisoned German women in a dormitory read books. Romanian soldiers lined up in a courtyard.
African American nurses in England during World War II. African American nurses on deck and lining rail of a ship as it comes to the dock. Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis waves to the nurses. Nurses move down the gangplank. General shakes hands with a medic and welcomes the nurses to England. In his speech Brigadier General Davis notes their status as the first "colored nurses" to arrive, and that he has read in a colored magazine that colored ambulance drivers and colored stretcher carriers have a good reputation for their caring service in the war. He expresses hope that the nurses would live up to the tradition of their profession. African American nurses move down the gangplank across the dock. They walk down the railroad platform by a waiting train. Brigadier General Davis talks to the Captain in charge of the nurses. Red Cross women hand over coffee and doughnuts to the nurses in the train and the train pulls away.
Red Cross supplies for prisoners of war during World War II. Supply boxes carrying food and other essential items piled up in a huge Red Cross warehouse. A sign on a box reads ' From: American Red Cross To: International Red Cross '. Men load boxes in a train to be transported to Munich. Train pulls away.
Ice pieces in the channel of Rocky River, Cleveland, Ohio. A boat upturned on the shore due to accumulation of ice in the river. A man looks at a damaged boat. Ice accumulated in the river channel. People look at the jammed river channel.
Flea ship of United States Coast Guard underway in the Atlantic Ocean. High waves break against the ship. Ice covers the parts of the ship due to sub zero temperatures. Coast Guards clean the ice.
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