Elderly residents of Dresden, including husband and wife Gustav and Alma Piltz (left), help to clear the rubble from the bomb-ravaged city after the war. Between 13 February 1945 and 15 February 1945, British Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces heavy bombers dropped 3,900 tons of high-explosives and incendiary devices on the city during the Bombing of Dresden, nearly obliterating it. Three more air raids followed, two occurring on 2 March 1945 and on on 17 April 1945. An estimated 22,700 to 25,000 Germans were killed during the campaign. The devastation took years to clear and as so many able-bodied German men lost their lives in the war, the effort of cleaning the rubble largely fell to women, the elderly and even children. Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
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