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High quality images of destruction.


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    This was my bedroom

    8 Comments
    2024/03/17
    22:40 UTC

    33

    "Low-level oblique aerial photograph showing the heavily-bombed flying-bomb assembly and launch bunker at Siracourt, France, the target for a number of attacks by Bomber Command and the USAAF in June 1944. [2267x1772]

    1 Comment
    2024/02/23
    21:50 UTC

    39

    "Hole made by 500 lb. Japanese shell and building wrecked by its fragments, Port Arthur." Stereoscopic photo of Russian servicemen and civilians during the Siege of Port Arthur, 1904-1905. [4528x2470]

    1 Comment
    2024/02/16
    21:29 UTC

    42

    “The Battle of Cassino, January-May 1944. Third Phase 11 - 18 May 1944: A low aerial view of the Monastery showing its complete destruction.” [2733x2480]

    5 Comments
    2024/02/08
    23:54 UTC

    48

    “Oblique aerial photograph showing an enemy merchant ship on fire off the coast of Yugoslavia after being attacked by Curtiss Kittyhawks of the Desert Air Force.” WWII photograph. [1772x2423]

    2 Comments
    2024/01/11
    03:03 UTC

    93

    Dallas South Dakota, 1936: The Dust Bowl

    10 Comments
    2024/01/03
    00:39 UTC

    74

    Black Sunday 1935 Storm in Ulysses, Kansas during The Dust Bowl

    2 Comments
    2023/12/29
    00:21 UTC

    69

    "A Civil Defence Warden inspects bomb damaged buildings in Holborn, London." Original color photograph taken during WWII. [1772x2639]

    3 Comments
    2023/11/11
    20:54 UTC

    43

    "The superstructure of HMS COLOSSUS, showing damage done at the Battle of Jutland. COLOSSUS was the flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron. She was hit twice and suffered five casualties. Note the wooden beams being used to brace the metalwork." Photo taken in 1916. [2980x2480]

    1 Comment
    2023/10/27
    21:54 UTC

    46

    View of the wreckage of the sunken blockship HMS Thetis after the Zeebrugge Raid in Zeebrugge, Belgium, 1918. [2393x1772]

    4 Comments
    2023/10/21
    21:28 UTC

    93

    St. Augustine's Church among the ruins of Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland - 1945

    8 Comments
    2023/10/06
    14:08 UTC

    40

    "Zeppelin Wrecked and Burned - Ruins Being Inspected by French Troops." WWI stereoview photo card published by Keystone View Company. [8239x4155]

    1 Comment
    2023/10/02
    02:58 UTC

    41

    "Oblique photographic-reconnaissance aerial of the twin railway viaducts at Schildesche, Bielefeld, following the successful daylight attack by 15 Avro Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron RAF on 14 March 1945." [2340x1772]

    3 Comments
    2023/09/29
    22:17 UTC

    38

    Abandoned Military base in Greece. Now demolished (OC)

    3 Comments
    2023/09/23
    10:19 UTC

    53

    Abandoned warehouse caught fire in Superior, WI

    2 Comments
    2023/09/17
    15:50 UTC

    45

    Hokkaido Government Office bombed by Japanese anti-government activists in 1976.

    1 Comment
    2023/09/15
    08:04 UTC

    40

    Enshedwe Firework Factory Explosion

    1 Comment
    2023/09/07
    16:25 UTC

    91

    Golf course used on PGA tour for the 3M Open is severely damaged by softball-sized hail, Oakdale Golf Club, Minnesota, August 2023.

    24 Comments
    2023/09/04
    18:38 UTC

    90

    Snowmobiler had a bad day! Ripped off a ski on this abandoned rail line in northern Minnesota.

    3 Comments
    2023/09/01
    17:19 UTC

    81

    The crash of The Red Arrow on Bennington Curve outside Altoona, PA.

    2 Comments
    2023/08/25
    22:59 UTC

    79

    "Remains of a railway carriage damaged in raids by the Allied Air Forces on the Cortona-Arezzo line." Original color WWII photograph. [1642x2480]

    1 Comment
    2023/08/23
    21:38 UTC

    107

    Original color photo of wrecked cars in a scrap and salvage depot in Butte, Montana, October 1942. Taken by Russell Lee. [5996x4433]

    4 Comments
    2023/08/17
    21:57 UTC

    76

    A collapsed wall at the fortress of Qasr Azraq in Jordan, 1918. [5617x3718]

    1 Comment
    2023/08/06
    03:50 UTC

    105

    "Civilians clambering over the ruins of the Ponte Alle Grazia, one of the bridges over the River Arno destroyed by the Germans before evacuating Florence on 11 August 1944." Original color photograph. [3405x5135]

    2 Comments
    2023/07/27
    22:19 UTC

    77

    View over Al-Hatab Square in Jdeideh quarter, Aleppo © UNESC

    3 Comments
    2023/07/20
    23:24 UTC

    11

    Spiked breech on an 88mm Flak gun abandoned at Eindhoven in September 1944

    0 Comments
    2023/07/05
    19:07 UTC

    131

    Pavlopetri, a Mycenaean city in Peloponnese, sunken around 1000 BCE, is the oldest submerged site in the Mediterranean sea.

    12 Comments
    2023/07/05
    18:29 UTC

    121

    "Troops pick through the ruins of Namsos after a German air raid, April 1940." [2270x1772]

    2 Comments
    2023/06/27
    22:31 UTC

    151

    Details from the “Burnt district” of Richmond, Virginia, photographed in April of 1865.

    1 Comment
    2023/06/26
    15:03 UTC

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