1940 - London burns after night raids by the Luftwaffe (narrated in 1963).
1930 - Old cars are piled in a landfill and set on fire.
1944 - US Navy gunners shoot down Japanese planes in the Pacific.
1957 - Firefighters put out a huge blaze that destroyed much of Universal Studio's back lot in Hollywood.
1939 - A daredevil eats razor blades and fire in New York, New York.
1933 - Adults and children of Kamaishi, Japan, sort through smoking rubble after a disastrous earthquake.
Wax on the stick burning in front of a black background. Ecology idea. Close up. Slow motion shot
1937 - Smoke rises from the burning Hindenburg at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
1930 - Two old trains, destroyed in a planned head-on collision, are seen burning.
1942 - In this Frank Capra documentary, German forces are successfully fended off from Stalingrad (narrated in 1943).
1944 - USAF firemen demonstrate the capabilities of new high-powered firefighting equipment, which smothers flames with carbon dioxide.
1949 - British men and women compete in a motorcycle daredevil show.
Wax on the stick burning in front of a black background. Ecology idea. Close up. Slow motion shot
1940s - An RAF airship goes down in flames.
1952 - A massive fire rages in an Austrian oil field controlled by the Soviets.
1939 - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, aerial combat footage shows the Luftwaffe attacking Poland (narrated in 1943).
1940s - In this Frank Capra documentary, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and captures many territories in the Pacific (narrated in 1944).
1941 - Ships are seen burning after the attack on Pearl Harbor (narrated in 1945).
Wax on the stick burning in front of a black background. Ecology idea. Close up. Slow motion shot
1967 - The US Marine air base in Da Nang is seen in flames after a nighttime rocket barrage.
1945 - Civilians flee Manila when Japanese soldiers, in their retreat, set fire to many buildings.
1933 - Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo taxis on Floyd Bennett Airfield, but loses control of his plane and it bursts into flames on the runway, killing de Pinedo.
1923 - A forest fire rages near a prairie.
1964 - Many are left homeless after a deadly earthquake in Niigata, Japan, and cleanup efforts begin.
NEW JERSEY - 1919 - A fire rages at the Solax Film Laboratories in New Jersey.
1945 - The Hamonic steamship is destroyed in a fire in Sarnia, Ontario but all passengers made it off safely.
Wax on the stick burning in front of a black background. Ecology idea. Close up. Slow motion shot
1945 - British troops treat and evacuate survivors of the Belsen concentration camp, capture its commander Josef Kramer, and burn down the camp.
1937 - Firemen lug hoses up their engine ladders to tend to a burning tenement building in New York City.
1957 - US Marines torch marijuana crops discovered by a sheriff in Chicago, Illinois.
1932 - Guests flee a burning hotel with some of their possessions before it is completely destroyed by the fire.
A candle flame - detail
1937 - A fire chief directs ladders at a burning tenement building in New York City.
1941 - A Japanese fleet approaches Peal Harbor after the aerial attack.
1967 - American soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division begin Operation Pershing in the Bong Son plain of Vietnam, where villagers are removed from a suspected Viet Cong hideout and the village burned.
1962 - South Vietnamese fighter pilots fly in formation and bomb an enemy site.
1902 - Fire fighters arrive at a smoking oil shop in Ireland.
1944 - In this Frank Capra documentary, flames engulf Manchuria as newspaper headlines of WWII battles flip into view.
1938 - The Hindenburg blimp bursting into flames at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, one of America's most famous tragedy.
1966 - Spectators get to watch German car tests where the automobiles get totaled, crashed, and burned.
1923 - Men use shovels and horse-drawn plows to begin fighting a fire on the prairie.
Flames dance among trees in an enchanting forest fire at night
Closeup shot of burning barbecue or BBQ coal.
1932 - Farmers set small, controlled fires on a rubber plantation in Brazil.
Hand of senior man kindle fire in fireplace via match in slow motion
1929 - Obsolete radio sets are collected and burned in a public bonfire.
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1930s - A ship docked in a cold harbor is engulfed in flames and smoke.