Damage due to earthquake, tsunami, and fire in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan caused by the 1933 Sanriku Earthquake. People gather in the devastated area. Smoke rises from wrecked and burned homes and boats. Rescuers digging through rubble for survivors. Children looking and picking through rubble on the ground. Damaged houses and buildings. Smoke rising in the area. One large boat washed up against a building. Two smaller boats seen washed ashore.
Ruins and devastation caused by the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. Members of a United States mission inspect the ruins. Effect of the ruins on the Russo-Japanese War Memorial. Trees in the field destroyed due to the explosion. Rubble and ruins in the city. Wrecked houses and buildings. A destroyed statue amidst the city. Damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall with Motoyasu Bridge in the background. People walk on a street.
Activities of civilians in Hiroshima, Japan soon after the end of World War II. Atomic bomb damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (later the site of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial) along river bank, with Motoyasu Bridge in far background. Crowded Japanese streetcar underway on bridge. View of bridge over river. Men ride bicycle on streets. Another view of the crowded streetcar or trolley.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Displaced cylindrical top stone of a gravestone in a cemetery. People walk on the damaged Motoyasu Bridge. Damaged stone lantern caps on the bridge. Pedestrians walk by with the damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall in the background behind the bridge (later site of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial). A collapsed lantern due to blast. A boat in the Motoyasu River. Damaged blocks of the bridge.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Damaged stone lanterns on a bridge over the Motoyasu River. People walk on the damaged bridge. A destroyed retaining wall along the river bank. Damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall building in the background (later site of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial).
Color film footage survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Hiroshima, Japan, soon after World War II. Stone lantern caps on Motoyasu Bridge damaged and jumped outwards from the blast. The upper portion of the stone lanterns displaced by a blast. Displacement of various components of the stone lanterns on the bridge. The effect of blast on the stone retaining wall along the Motoyasu River. View of damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, later the site of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Wrecked solitary fire walls, barracks and communication buildings.