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This mountain brook will be covered by one of the new broad streets which will be a feature of Asiago. The wooded heights beyond are ruined, the majority of the trees still standing being dead as a result of shell fire

This mountain brook will be covered by one of the new broad streets wh...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T.C., June 16, 1920. MS. 4070. Group title: Reconstruct... More

A wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire

A wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire

Photographer's address: 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 172. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading through the surf under heavy machine gun and shell fire from hidden enemy positions back of the beaches. One of the landing craft is set aflame by an enemy shell. Another shell just misses an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle personnel) and sends up a plume of smoke and water. Allied cruisers come in close to shore to blast the enemy whose positions are relayed by naval spotters advancing with the landing parties

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading th...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Church ruined by shell fire but crucifix untouched. Lucy, France.

Church ruined by shell fire but crucifix untouched. Lucy, France.

Photo by Sig. Corps. 16337. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The British Eight [sic] Army's victory in Cyrenaica: Havoc wrought by British artillery bear Derna; dead lying among the wreckage of an Italian ammunition column caught by accurate shell-fire

The British Eight [sic] Army's victory in Cyrenaica: Havoc wrought by ...

British official photograph : BM 7920. No. BO-847. Picture taken S.W. of Gazaia.

Second line coming up amid shell fire to win the trench

Second line coming up amid shell fire to win the trench

British soldiers in World War I. J217084 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Realistic Travels.

Betheniville. About 50 kilometers from Rheims. The damage was done, not by shell fire but by dynamite squads left behind by the Germans in their retreat. ARC photo

Betheniville. About 50 kilometers from Rheims. The damage was done, no...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Group title: Ruins, France. 27 June 1919 [date received] Used in: Atlantic... More

Essomes, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friends' Unit of the American Red Cross repairing roof and window of house damaged by shell fire

Essomes, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friends' Unit of the Ame...

Caption from negative sleeve: Essomes near Chateau Thierry. Quakers repairing roof and windows. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or ne... More

Ambulance drivers in a "Bomb proof" behind the lines. This station is situated near a town which is quite frequently under shell fire

Ambulance drivers in a "Bomb proof" behind the lines. This station is ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: S.F. Zook. Group Title: Ambulance, Drivers, Italy. Data: H.E. 24576, M.S. 1142; C... More

Lamp post which suffered from shell fire

Lamp post which suffered from shell fire

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Essoms, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friends' Unit of the American Red Cross repairing a house damaged by shell fire

Essoms, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friends' Unit of the Amer...

Caption from negative sleeve: Film in possession of M.G.B. Ford. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission t... More

Essomes, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friend's Unit of the ARC repairing a barn damaged by shell fire

Essomes, near Chateau Thierry. Members of the Friend's Unit of the ARC...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Reconstruction, France. Data: D. Credit Red Cross Bulletin, Jan. 27. Mrs. O.D. Foster, N.Y. City. On caption card: November 1918, January 1919, date rec... More

Reims. Cardinal Lucon (left) and his assistant. The Cardinal remained in Reims under shell fire and left only when forced to by the French authorities in March 1918

Reims. Cardinal Lucon (left) and his assistant. The Cardinal remained ...

Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Reims. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: [George E.] Marshall; Photo by A... More

Retheniville. About 50 kilometers from Rheims. The damage was done, not by shell fire but by dynamite squads left behind by the Germans in their retreat

Retheniville. About 50 kilometers from Rheims. The damage was done, no...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC photo. Group title: Ruins, France. 27 June 1919 [date received] Gift; America... More

Interior of Church damaged by shell fire, in which the American Red Cross installed its headquarters at Neuilly, France

Interior of Church damaged by shell fire, in which the American Red Cr...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Commission to France. Group title: Ruins. Headquarters. France. On caption c... More

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading through the surf under heavy machine gun and shell fire from hidden enemy positions back of the beaches. One of the landing craft is set aflame by an enemy shell. Another shell just misses an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle personnel) and sends up a plume of smoke and water. Allied cruisers come in close to shore to blast the enemy whose positions are relayed by naval spotters advancing with the landing parties

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading th...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More