Yet, while driving from Potsdam to Berlin in July 1945, he exclaimed, "I never saw such destruction!" Almost all the great cities of central and eastern Europe were jagged with ruined buildings, pitted roads, wrecked bridges, and choked waterways.
Throughout the country, flooding severely damaged crops and wrecked bridges and roads.
Supplies ran short and the supply services struggled to bring up sufficient food and ammunition over cratered roads and wrecked bridges and the main British advance was forced to halt.
Dominica's prime minister has pleaded for more international aid to help rebuild the tiny Caribbean country after tropical storm Erika tore across the island, devastating villages, wrecking bridges and leaving a reconstruction bill worth half the country's annual GDP.
The road between Vatomandry and Brickaville was washed out or otherwise blocked by landslides, and the village of Ilaka was isolated after the storm wrecked a bridge.
Tiny segments of track or steam plumes will suffice, as will train wrecks, bridge trestles or portraits of baggage handlers or locomotive cleaning crews.
Transportation was disrupted when the floods wrecked four bridges and 154 mi (248 km) of highways.
The floods wrecked four bridges on a road between La Lima and Tela.
He was already a senior judge when he was given charge of a notable trial after an incident on a stormy night in 1980 when a freighter rammed, and wrecked, the Sunshine Skyway bridge over Tampa Bay, killing 35 people whose cars plunged into the water.
Elsewhere in Madagascar, Geralda wrecked houses and bridges in Fénérive.
