Wreckage Collection (#4)

WW2 Bomb damaged Hospital Sept 40 Nurses looking at damage

A large scale Civil Defence exercise held at Portsmouth. Taking part were 1, 400 soldiers, a Naval radio activity monitoring team, as well as men and women of the Civil Defence

War - World War II - Picture shows downed Nazi aircraft piled in heaps during the Battle of Britain - 8th Aug 1940

The burnt out wreckage of a Russian T54 tank seen here in central Prague following the Warsaw pact invasion of the country

Hungarian Revolt 1956. Onlookers inspect the tangled wreckage of an unidentified vehicle following heavy street fighting in the centre of Budapest on November 4th 1956 between Hungarian freedom

South Londons First Civil Defence Basic Training Ground at the Lamberth Civil Defence Training Centre. Our Picture Shows: Rescue workers seen here learning how to extract casualties from the rubble

Civil Defence Range Albert Road Croydon, where members of the Civil Defence under the guidance of the Range Supervisor Charles Caldicott have built a bomb blasted village

The aftermath of V2 explosion. On the 8th September 1944 a huge explosion occured in Staveley Road, Chiswick, West London. There had been no siren, no warning and no V1 flying bombs had been sighted

Mike Moore Award. Feature Photographer of the Year winning photo shows a boy playing in the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia, as life in the war torn city returns to normal. March 1997

Blitz: Taken from the German word Blitzkrieg ( lightning war ), this was the British name for the Luftwaffes sustained night attacks against their cities from August 1940 to midway 1941

Locals dancing around the piano down Bow way, London. Blitz: Taken from the German word Blitzkrieg ( lightning war ), this was the British name for the Luftwaffes sustained night attacks against

London Blitz Battle of Britain WW2 September 1940 Members of the Police the Fire services and the Army inspect the wreckage of a downed German bomber which crashed onto Victoria Station London

The aftermath of V2 explosion, on the 8th September 1944 a huge explosion occured in Staveley Road, Chiswick, West London. There had been no siren, no warning and no V1 flying bombs had been sighted

Lieutenant K. J. Dawes of Bristol gives the order to an R. A. F
Lieutenant K.J. Dawes of Bristol gives the order to an R.A.F. gun crew to fire a Propaganda Shell into German lines. WW2

German pocket battleship Graf Spee sinking War WW2 ship being sunk Scuppered itself following the battle of River Plate in Uruguay 1940s

Lagoon after battle for Tarawa Island in the Pacific 1944

WW2 II: German battleship Bismarck sinks the Royal Navys largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1, 400 lives

Residential area close to the centre of Coventry seen here the morning after the Luftwaffe raid on the city. 15th November 1940

Survivors from the previous nights bombing seen here walking through the wreckage of Coventry city centre. 15th November 1940 Survivors from the previous nights bombing seen here walking through

The smouldering wreckage of centre of Coventry a couple of days following the heavy raid by the Luftwaffe on the 14th November 1940

Policeman in short sleeves helmet frantically trying to move a giant rock in the wreckage of an LCC Central school in the London suburbs following a daylight attack by rooftop German raiders

Soldiers of the 8th Manchester Regiment at Ardwick Green working together to clear the debris from their barracks and to release their trapped comrades after a German air raid

Couple carrying the remaining possessions from their bombed home in a pram following an enemy attack in North West London during the Second World War. 16th February 1941

A diver studies the fungus covered gun of the British battleship HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-boat during the Battle of Scapa Flow in the Second World War October 1980

Children playing amongst the wreckage of a destroyed building following a German air raid. September 1942

The aftermath of a V2 explosion at Stavely Road, Chiswick. 9th September 1944

The remains of the Belgium town of Termonde after the German Army fired the town during their brief occucpation between the 4th to 6th September 1914 Published Daily Mirror Page 12 14th September

Locals examine a damaged and abandoned gun limber in the remains of the Belgium village of Melle Circa September 1914

Greenhouses damaged in Antwerp the result of one of the three air raids made on the city by German Zeppelin airships in late August 1914

Belgian Army officers inspect telegraph / radio office damaged in Antwerp the result of
Belgian Army officers inspect telegraph/radio office damaged in Antwerp the result of one of the three air raids made on the city by German Zeppelin airships in late August 1914

The Cuirassiers of the French cavarly seen here passing through the ruins of Senlis a town north of Paris which had been shelled and occupied by the Germans. September 1914

World War One Outbreak September 1914 Northern France. Original caption reads;"
World War One Outbreak September 1914 Northern France. Original caption reads; " It is a grim experience to follow in the track of the retreating Germans in France

The Belgian town of Termonde after being recaptured is now only a heap of ruins, and the picture shows the devastation caused by the Germans during their occupation

Blast damage at Falk Stadelman, Hatton Garden and Farringdon Street, London after a V1 flying bomb attack. August 1944 P009476

The American soldier stripping his outer garments amid the scene of a V1 flying bomb attack. June 1944 P009471

Children of Elgin Terrace in Maida Vale, London, look up at the bomb damage near their homes after a V1 flying bomb attack. June 1944 P009494

The Midland Daily Telegraph, which became the Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1941, took a direct hit at its Hertford Street offices of the newspaper

View of the city of London taken from the roof of St Pauls Cathedral showing the devastation and burning buildings following the blitz of the 29th December 1940

Tip and run raid. Removing furniture from buildings which are blazing at Marylebone after a V1 flying bomb attack. March 1944 P009472

Piece of metal, believed to be part of the V1 flying bomb found at Nunhead. June 1944 P009488

V1 flying bomb falls on dwelling houses and shops somewhere in Southern England. Rescue work and fire fighting scenes. August 1944 P009480

Queenie, a dog who lost her home, waiting to be taken away after a V1 flying bomb attack in Kentish Town, London. June 1944 P009490

Bomb damage near Waterloo Station. A Blitzed bus caused by blast from a V1 flying bomb. June 1944 P009482

V1 Flying bomb incident at East Smithfield causing damage and casualties - also fractured gas and water mains-the gas main was well alight

When a block of flats was hit in Maida Vale by a V1 flying bomb a large tree was completely stripped of leaves and snapped in half by the blast. June 1944 P009495

Blast damage to a block of flats at Maida Vale in London after a V1 flying bomb attack, showing C.D. searching amongst the wreckage. June 1944 P009499

With the onset of trench warfare from September 1914 on the Western Front increased value was placed upon information enabling military strategists to piece together the precise composition of

Louvain the subject of mass destruction by the German army over a period of five days from 25 August 1914. 4327

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