A railroad station in Sicily after bombings by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. Damage caused to railroad station with debris spread around th station. Sign reads 'Taormina-Giardini'. U.S. soldier inspects a railroad car. Damaged locomotives and railroad cars.
Damages in Sicily after bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. soldier stands amidst debris in harbor area. Soldier inspects abandoned guns. Soldiers looks at wrecked vehicles and climbs on one of the vehicle. Wreckage of equipment and harbor facilities. Debris burn.
Various houses and a school are under construction in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Japanese girls carry lumber to construct school rooms for the Sakuragaoka Girls' High School. Two canvas covered huts used as school rooms and half constructed school building in the background. Newly built middle class Japanese houses. In the background there is a technical school. A Japanese laborer mixes mud and straw in a big wooden container by stomping around in it with his bare feet. Construction of a wooden frame structure. A man sifts sand used in the covering of walls of the houses under construction.
Firefighting equipment at a steel mill and oil refinery in Otaka, Japan. A reinforced concrete shelter is used to protect the fire fighting equipment at the steel mill. The fire fighting equipment being towed out of its underground revetment at the oil refinery. A Japanese worker removes human excrement from a out house for use as fertilizer. Grain being weighed and measured by merchant in Kyoto. People in a line wait for their ration of grains. A wagonsmiths shop in Kyoto.
A lumber mill located near Maizuru, Japan. Interior of the lumber mill where large logs are being cut by means of an automatic saw machine. Boards are being cut into ½ inch width for use in repairing repatriation ships at the Eno Ship Building Company, Maizuru. The logs float in a lumber pond waiting to be cut into boards. A half completed wooden frame structure on a hillside near the main highway from Kyoto to Sonobe. This building was to be used as a small factory.
A U.S. destroyer at Anzio harbor, Italy during World War II. Tracers are fired at German aircraft from the U.S. DD (destroyer). 20mm gun crews fire. Tracers being fired from an AA (antiaircraft gun).
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