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.
United States Navy Elco PT boat underway in Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Men aboard the boat work on equipment, with one using a paint brush to apply paint or lubricant to a piece of deck equipment. Naval officer looks out over ocean through a pair of binoculars. "Moreno" on opening film indicates cameraman was Robert C. Moreno from the OSS Field Photo Unit.
United States Navy vessels underway in Atlantic Ocean during World War II. United States Navy PT (patrol) boats underway in Atlantic Ocean. A 50 caliber machine gunner works on the gun aboard a vessel. Explosions occur around minesweepers. Massive explosions occur causing a pillar of smoke to rise up as a result of the bombing of French coast. A cruiser shelled in mid sea.
United States Navy PT Boats underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. In one of the boats, a sailor in battle gear is seen at a twin 50 caliber machine gun. The boats generate a large wake as they move at high speed through the water. Other crew members are seen at their respective stations in the boat.
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