Wreckage in and around Ploesti (Ploiesti), following air raids by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers in World War 2. Sign hanging down from bombed out building reads, in Romanian: "Coafor. Frizer" (Hairdresser. Barber). Thick Plume of smoke rises in background. A car passes the camera.Men work to clean up debris inside steel skeleton of a wrecked hangar-like building. From a rooftop, camera pans over various damaged buildings. The Teleajen River is visible in the background. Heavy black smoke billows from bomb strikes on an industrial site. Rubble fills the foreground. A church building stands (apparently undamaged) in the midst of fire and smoke. Vehicles pass a massive cloud of smoke rising from inside a fenced enclave. Fire and smoke billow from some sort of storage tank. Fire hoses seen pouring water on the scene. Suddenly a large burst of fire and smoke rises and then the scene is engulfed in black smoke. Firefighters using hoses on fires in an industrial complex. Smoke stacks and oil derrick seen.
Smoke rising from bombing at rail yards in Ploesti (Ploiesti) Romania,during World War 2. View of tank cars and petroleum storage tanks in the rail facilities. A locomotive sitting on a track partially obscured by heavy smoke blowing across the scene. Smoke coming from trains of tank cars that have been bombed.Firefighters training hoses on flames and black smoke rising high into the air. Firefighter silhouetted against the flames as he climbs a ladder next to embankment bringing a hose to train on the fires.
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.
Red Ball Express of Allied Forces in Saint-Lo, France. Truck convoys in TCRP-2 area move out for re-routing. A large number of trucks move in a line. Trees in the background. A sign reads 'All truck convoys'. Men stand near the sign. Convoy leader in jeep stops at check point. He walks to inspection tent. Several signs in front of the tent. A sign reads 'Movements section'. The leader receives an order and leads empty convoy of ten semitrailers out of area. (World War II period).
NATO's SACLANT responsibilities, assets, and activities. HMCS Bonaventure (CVL-22) Aircraft carrier of Royal Canadian Navy underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft scattered on the deck of the ship. A Canadian Destroyer nearby. NATO flag flies, flanked by British Ensigns, from Headquarters SACLANT's Eastern Subordinate Command, at Northwood, near London, England. Guard at gate checks incoming car. Sign reads: "Headquarters, The Commanders in Chief, Eastern Atlantic Area, Atlantic Command." Interior of command center. Ships of NATO nations equipped according to modern needs. British antisubmarine frigates flying the Naval ensign. Ships of French Navy underway. and in port, flying the French tricolor flag. A man fills entries in the 'Convoy' column of a chart in the Headquarters. View of patrol bomber aircraft with large radar that also carries bombs. At Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) crews are briefed for an antisubmarine exercise. RCAF Argus aircraft takes off. U.S. EC-121 Warning Star Constellation patrol aircraft in fiight. Flight of six P-2 Neptune aircraft in formation flight. An RAF Shackelton bomber, of 201 Squadron, on the tarmac. These aircraft search the sea and being used in anti-submarine warfare.
Simulated attack and planes in flight during Air Corps Demonstrations of Command Schools in United States. The planes simulate an attack on enemy squadron of attack planes. Planes in flight in formation. Us Army Air Corps Douglas A-2 attack aircraft, Curtiss A-3 Falcon aircraft and Curtiss-Martin NBS-1 planes being attacked by Curtiss P-1 Hawk aircraft.
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