Aerial view of factories in the Ruhr valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (British Occupation Zone) after World War 2. Electrical power cables, installations and smokestacks can be seen. Idle industrial plants. Steel and metal works shows damage from bombing.
War damage of an industrial district in the British Occupied Zone, Germany after World War 2. British flag waving in front of smokestacks and damaged factory buildings. Smoke coming out of a damaged factory. View of damaged steel and metal works at Buer, a suburb of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia (British Occupied Zone). A coal mine in the background. Interior of a factory show its wreckage and debris from an aerial bombing attack. Some bombed factories show heavy damage that only the building framing and piles of debris remain.
A radio tower being bombarded in Philippines during World War 2. Close view of fuselage of a plane. Insignia and name 'Major G. Laren, Jr.' written on the fuselage. Aerial view of the city. A U.S. pilot and a co-pilot in the cockpit of a plane. A steel radio tower hit by a shell. There is an explosion and flashes of fire as the shell hits the tower in the center. The tower falls down.
Armorers work on P-47N Thunderbolts of the 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, on Ie Shima Airfield, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The unit was targeting Kyushu, Japan, near end of World War 2. Airmen near P-47s. Airman on the wing of a plane. Another walks nearby. Gun camera footage shot inflight and aerial views of return to Ie Shima, including the landing rollout.
P-47 aircraft of U.S. Army Air Forces 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, strafe a town on Kyushu Island, Japan at the end of World War 2. Aerial view of a town. Places in town on fire. Thick black smoke rises.
Shirtless U.S. Army Air Forces ground crew members refuel a 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, P-47N airplane, on Ie Shima Island, Ryukyu Islands, preparing to attack Kyushu, in final days of World War 2. Picture of a girl and the words 'Winkie Jean' painted on the nose of the P-47.
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