Around the world -- Photos

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A scene of devastation in the Dockland area of London attacked by German bomber on September 17, 1940

 

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A German aircraft drops its load of bombs above England, during an attack on September 20, 1940

 

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London children enjoy themselves at a Christmas Party, on December 25, 1940, in an underground shelter.

 

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This photo, taken in the winter months of 1942, shows citizens of Leningrad as they dip for water from a broken main, during the nearly 900-day siege of the Russian city by German invaders. Unable to capture the Leningrad (today known as Saint Petersburg), the Germans cut it off from the world, disrupting utilities and shelling the city heavily for more than two years.

 

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German soldiers crossing a Russian River on their tank on August 3, 1942

 

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A German tank rolls up to its defeated enemy tank which burns near the edge of a patch of woods, somewhere in Russia, on October 20, 1942.

 

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Sometime in the Autumn 1942, a German soldier hangs a Nazi flag from a building in downtown Stalingrad.

 

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Symbolic of the defense of Sevastopol, Crimea, is this Russian girl sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who, by the end of the war, had killed a confrimed 309 Germans -- the most successful female sniper in history

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

 

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Three Soviet guerrillas in action in Russia during World War II.

 

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Evidence of the fierce fighting on the Moscow sector of the front is provided in this photo showing what the Germans claim to be some of the 650,000 Russian prisoners which they captured at Bryansk and Vyasma. They are here seen waiting to be transported to a prisoner of war camp somewhere in Russia, on Nov. 2, 1941.

 

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Adolf Hitler, center, studies a Russian war map with General Field Marshal Walter Von Brauchitsch, left, German commander in chief, and Chief of Staff Col. General Franz Halder, on August 7, 1941.

 

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German soldiers remove one of many Soviet national emblems during their drive to conquer Russia on July 18, 1941

 

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An column of Russian prisoners of war taken during recent fighting in Ukraine, on their way to a Nazi prison camp on September 3, 1941

 

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This trainload of men was described by German sources as Soviet prisoners en route to Germany, on October 3, 1941. Several million Soviet soldiers were eventually sent to German prison camps, the majority of whom never returned alive.

 

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Haile Selassie (right), exiled Emperor of Ethiopia, whose empire was absorbed by Italy, returns with an Ethiopian army recruited to aid the British in Africa, on February 19, 1941. Here, the emperor inspects an airport, an interpreter at his side. On May 5, 1941, after the Italians in Ethiopia were defeated by Allied troops, Selassie returned to Addis Ababa, and resumed his position as ruler.

 

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Flames leap from the deck of the USS Bunker Hill, after it was hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds on May 11, 1945 off Kyushu. 346 aboard were killed, another 264 wounded.

 

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Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.

Hiyo inawezekana hapa Tanganyika lakini si Zanzibar

 

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After an incendiary bombing, a view of some of the damage in Tokyo, Japan in 1945. A strip of residential buildings remains undamaged, surrounded by ashes and rubble of neighboring structures burned or blasted to the ground.

 

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The terrible damage done to Tokyo by American bombers can be seen in what was once a residential district in the Japanese capital, viewed months later, on September 10, 1945. Only large well constructed buildings remain intact.

 

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"Fat Man" was dropped from the B-29 bomber Bockscar, detonating at 11:02 AM, at an altitude of about 1,650 feet (500 m) above Nagasaki. An estimated 39,000 people were killed outright by the bombing a further 25,000 were injured.