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| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a village in France that has been totally destroyed by the war. Caption reads: "The utter ruin and desolation of a typical bombarded villa... |
| Date: | 08 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Two World War II veterans from Berwyn, Illinois, released on bail pending a new hearing, are with their lawyers. The two young men were convicted and impri... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Allied soldier posing in Brest, France, in front of a bombed-out building, smoking a cigarette. The street is covered with rubble. |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on the back of the print, "Buna, immediately after capture by Yanks and Aussies." Two men stand in the center amid the destruction of the jungl... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the damage to the dance hall in Cormicy. Caption reads: "The Cormicy dance-hall. Dance halls in France, whether wrecked as this one or not... |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of disabled World War I veteran Adolph Gunness, Soldier Boy Ice Cream Bars vendor, who was arrested for selling on the street. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun on display. A sign on the right identifies it as a 20mm anti-aircraft gun manufactured by the Pontiac Motor Division. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A heavily bombed street in Hanoi. A number of people are in the street in the background near parked cars. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a damaged church tower, with a clock at the top. Caption reads: "Ruined church at St. Hilaire-le-Grand. Notice the clock." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View down road leading to what is left of Esmes. Caption reads: "What is left of Esmes. Notice the shell-packed road and the concrete water trough." |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Marines running to climb aboard a truck after coupling a 75-mm gun. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Vietnamese woman holding an infant emerging from a bomb shelter under the watchful eye of two South Vietnamese soldiers (ARVN). This incident was witnessed... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A crowd of pedestrians, trucks, and cyclists on a road waiting to go through an arch in a damaged building amid the post-Tet destruction in Hue. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing by a camouflaged gun base. Caption reads: "Famous French "75." Notice the empty shell, the loaded shells leaning against the sand-bag... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View of exterior of a church in Cormicy which was hit by opposing forces and almost completely destroyed. Caption reads: "Churches, as the most prominent b... |
| Date: | 08 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the east wing of Sterling Hall showing damage in the aftermath of the bombing. Unfortunately, despite an attempt to detonate the bomb w... |
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