Romanians commence cleanup after attacks by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers in Ploesti (Ploiesti) during World War 2. Workers shovel building debris from rails in front of a train station. A locomotive pulls a train into a platform on which the entire roof has been destroyed. A group of Romanian workers carrying shovels and other implements, walks along a section of track past destroyed structures.They work to straighten rails and remove portions of buildings and other debris from the tracks. One uses a cutting torch to release a huge piece of reinforced concrete, which is then raised up by a crane. Workers are busy all over the area in the cleanup activities. Several men inspect damage to a locomotive.
The U.S. Air Force aircraft attack target areas around Soc Trang Province during Vietnam War in Vietnam. A forest region with trees, 15 miles Southwest of Soc Trang Province in Vietnam . An explosion occurs due to a bomb dropped by a U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft piloted by Captain Richardson. A General-purpose bomb explosion among the trees in the forest region. Smoke rises from the area of explosion. Shell casings drop from the aircraft as bombs drop on target areas.
Exterior view of the Chicago Coliseum (1466 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago Illinois, at 15th and Wabash. Patriotic bunting decoratively displayed on the building as it hosts the 1916 Republican National Convention. Delegates march en masse, to the Coliseum, carrying small American flags. Closeup of Senator Warren G. Harding, convention chairman, tipping his hat and speaking. Automobiles parked at the curb, and people carrying umbrellas as they enter Entrance F of the coliseum. Women suffragists (sometimes called suffragettes) holding umbrellas as they walk together on wet pavement, in a demonstration for women's suffrage (voting rights for women). Closeup of Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, at the Coliseum. He doffs his hat and says a few words. Another closeup of him seated on a bench in the coliseum. Street scene with Hughes walking with a group of men, when a man steps into their midst to shake hands with Hughes. Another closeup of Hughes, seated on a bench.
Prisoners at a Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. A young prisoner of the German Concentration Camp. 15 year Polish boy. The boy dressed in a black coat and cap. He is seated in camp area. (World War II period).
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Baden Baden, Germany, shortly before World War 2. View of the Collegiate Church (Stiftskirche Marktpl. 15, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany) in Baden-Baden. People walk on a path in a garden. A bridge seen over a stream. Men and women at the Golf Club. A woman sitting on the edge of a fountain. A large crowd at the Horse Racecourse. Wealthy, high-society men and women celebrate with wine and food. Children enjoy eating cakes and sweets. A man with a fishing rod near a small stream. Pebbles and trees in the background.
View from above, of the surrounding walls and courtyard of a prison in Rheinbach, Germany. Ground view inside the prison yard, where German civilian Matthias Gierens is being escorted to the gallows by U.S. military police, and accompanied by a German Catholic priest, on June 29, 1945. They ascend the gallows and final charges and sentence are read to Gierens. Next scene shows bodies stacked up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany. Scene returns to the gallows, and a hood is placed over Gierens' head. View of Allied army officer witnesses, in formation, at parade rest. Noose is placed over Gierens' hood. View of a a bird flying overhead, trapdoor opens, Gierens drops, and noose tightens. Next is an unrelated scene of several German soldiers being executed. They are seen hanging from four gallows in a line in a public square while a large crowd, possibly Soviet citizens, looks on. (Notes: Regarding the execution of Gierens in the opening scene: German civilian Matthias Gierens was a 37 year old railroad worker. He was executed for the August 15, 1944, murder near Priest, Germany, of a downed American airman, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss. Gierens and three other German civilians, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, of the murder. Their trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime.)