Japanese battleship Nagato underway on a river in Japan during World War II. Many small picket boats and riverboats tied along a dock. A Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel underway and the American flag flying. U.S. troops on the LCVP talk and point at a particular place. Japanese battleship Nagato underway. An unfinished hull being towed down the river by three tugs. A close up of Japanese battleship.
Gliders parked on a field in Brussels, Belgium during world War II. A glider with an insignia of the United States on the field. Buildings in the background. A soldier enters a glider and other exits. A view of the gliders across the field. The wings of the gliders with the insignia of the United States.
Bombed buildings in Berlin, Germany at end of World War II, in Europe. A damaged building. Civilians walking past destroyed buildings. Damaged brick walls of the Anhalter Bahnhof Station. Twisted rails and steel girders in a severely damaged railroad station. Twisted steel girders on a railway track. Bricks cascaded from destroyed Anhalter Bahnhof in the background. A damaged sign board. Ruins of a damaged building.
Workers installing pilings to re-enforce wrecked buildings at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, at the end of World War II, in Europe. Wide shot of The Konzerthaus Berlin (Konzerthaus Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany) with wrecked military and civilian vehicles in the square. Close up of detonated mortar shell. Steps of The Konzerthaus showing heavy bomb damage. Statue of Apollo, in a chariot drawn by two griffins, atop the building. The statue of a cherub, perched on a lion, playing pipes, and one on a panther, playing a harp. Camera pans from The Konzerthaus to The French Cathedral (Französischer Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and then to the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom) at the Gendarmenmarkt. All buildings in Gendarmenmarkt sustained damage from the war.
Early post-World War 2 views of damage to the German Air Ministry building (Detlev-Rohwedder Haus), Located on Wilhelmstrasse at the intersection with Leipziger Strasse, in Berlin, Germany. Opening scene shows large statue of eagle surmounting an enwreathed swastika. Scene shifts to Wilhelmstrasse, near gate to courtyard at center of the building. Gate is flanked by two eagle statues on pillars. There are pedestrians on the street and some cyclists, but no motor vehicles. Rubble lines the street, and one gaping hole is shown in the side of the building. All the windows have been blown out, and one wing is missing from an eagle statue. Closer view of the courtyard and eagle-flanked gate. Another heavily damaged area of the building showing section of exterior walls collaped revealing structural damage inside. Building entrance with "Heil Hitler" in an embossed relief stone decoration over the door.
In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
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