Wreckage of Krupp works.

Wreckage of Krupp works. This wreckage of the once mighty Krupp armament works at Essen, Germany, was photographed after entry of the 17th U.S. Airborne Division, First Allied Airborne Army, into Essen April 10, 1945. The Krupp steel works, considered the largest in Europe, were battered from the air and by Ninth U.S. Army artillery before the city fell to Americans. Essen is in the Ruhr area in the midst of one of the world's richest hard coal deposits.