Attack Collection (#34)

Maltas Defences firing - WWII
World War Two - Maltas Fixed night defences firing - July 1943

Damascus, Syria - Panorama with bomb damage
Damascus, Syria - Panorama. This picture shows the result of 48 hours of French bombing of Damascus in retaliation for the Syrian revolt against the French Mandate - 1500 people reported killed

Tank attack WWI
French tank attacking behind the embankment near Courcelles, France, during World War I

Nivelle Offensive WWI
Scout group during French attack during Nivelle Offensive in World War I

German troops in Finland WWI
German troops battle with Red troops in Helsinki, Finland during World War I

French attack WWI
French attack during World War I in Alsace-Lorraine

Aircraft attack in France WWII
Low level aircraft attack on an enemy column of horse-drawn vehicles in France

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

RAF bombing German warship
An RAF biplane bombs a german warship off the coast of Africa during World War One. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

A Depth Charge Exploding
A ship under attack during the final conflicts of the sea war of the First World War - a depth charge explodes in the wake of a swiftly moving Royal Navy vessel

D-Day - American troops taking cover
American troops, including a heavy machine gunner (r) take shelter behind an earth bank during the assault on the normandy coast

Gas attack rehearsal 1938
Gas attack rehearsal in Nottingham in 1938. A man with bell and rattle gives a warning of a gas attack in a simulated practice which was filmed to give instruction to other people in the UK

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

Family wearing gas masks
A family wearing gas masks on a quiet night in at home during World War II

Bombing of Bruges 1918
Ruins of Bruges after the British aerial attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

An Attack in the Rear
A mischievous young boy hides behind a pillar waiting to throw the snowballs that hes carrying at the next unsuspecting passer-by

Battle of Messines 1917
Soldiers of the 13th Brigade (who were to take part in the second phase of the battle) studying a large contour map of the area to be attacked between Petit Pont

Attack on Thionville (Diedenhofen) 1918
Damage to the railway station at Thionville (called Diedenhofen and part of the German Empire at the time) caused by an air raid attack by the indpendent airforce on the Western Front in during World

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

Rubber anti-gas suit 1918
Private Sloan wearing a rubber anti-gas suit as a protection against gas attacks at Croix de Claremont on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

Battles of the Marne 1918
A French village under heavy German Artillery and Grenade fire at the Battle of the Marne on the Western Front in France during World War I in July 1918

Omiecourt 1918
Stores and hutments burning at Omiecourt. Gun teams are seen pulling guns out of the smoke after the German attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1918

Battle of the Scarpe 1917
Scottish troops advancing to the attack at the Battle of the Scarpe, near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Battle of Menin Road Ridge
The 13th Durham Light Infantry in trenches before their attack on Veldhoek, Belgium, during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge during World War I on 20th September 1917

Battle of Menin Road Ridge
The 13th Durham Light Infantry in trenches before their attack on Veldhoek, Belgium, during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge during World War I on 20th September 1917

Carrie Nation, the Saloon Smasher
Carrie Nation (1846-1911), American temperance campaigner known as the Saloon Smasher because of her use of vandalism to get her views across -- she would generally enter a saloon

Emin Pasha under attack
Emin Pashas men revolt at Dufile in in 1880. H.M Stanley(1841-1904), explorer, mounted the Emin Pasha relief expedition to central Africa to rescue him in 1886

19th Indian Dagger Division - Burma
Tanks and infantry of the 19th Indian Dagger Division move up to the attack - Burma

HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions
Birds eye view (taken from a seaplane) of the British warship HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions in the Gulf of Ismid in early July 1920

Gunshots in a Tavern
Customers in a tavern in Fourmies, France, duck for cover as gun shots are fired inside the building

Abyssinian Expedition: The storming of Magdala on Easter Mon
The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a punitive expedition against King Theodore, after he had imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British Government

Torpedo-Dropping Aircraft
This photograph shows an aircraft making an attack on a merchant vessel

Attack on the battleship Prince of Wales
Photograph showing the Japanese attack on the battleship Prince of Wales at Malaya near Kuantan Pahang

The Japenese Bombing of Pearl Harbour
Photograph showing the Japenese attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, 1941, which began the War in the Pacific

Attack on the battleship West Virginia at Pearl Harbour
American sailors fight the flames on the battleship West Virginia which was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour with the use of torpedoes

Russia - Bayonet Practise for members the Preobrajensky Guard Regiment

Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 2 of 5
Card 2 of 5 - The Attack. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community

Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) - Attacking with fixed bayonets
Italian troops counter-attacking with fixed bayonets. The Italo Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya

An Air Attack
A delicate lady, accompanied by her boy servant, fends off a small swarm of bees with an equally small parasol

The Somme 1916
British soldiers, silhouetted against the sky, rush to the attack across no mans land during the Battle of the Somme

Egypt - Nile - Children with Crocodiles
Children on the banks of the Nile in Northern Egypt attack a group of crocodiles with sticks

Canadian soldiers learning how to attack with a bayonet

A British gun which aided the attack on German troops in Antwerp

Flight-Commander Francis E. T. Hewlett: Saved after his plane went down after the attack on Cuxhaven

Going to the Attack
Going to the attack A depiction of leucocytes and phagocytes as the Army of the Interior, armed with bows and arrows, on their way to fight off infection

The attack on the Pegasus by the Konigsberg : Transhippin
WWI, World War One, First World War, 1st World War. World War 1, The Great War

Flight-Lt. Learoyd attacking the Dortmund-Ems Canal; Second
Illustration showing a Royal Air Force Handley-Page Hampden bomber, commanded by Flight-Lieutenant R.A.B. Learoyd, bombing the Dortmund-Ems canal near Munster in Germany, 12th August 1940. Flight-Lt

Romanian Troops attacking Ghemesh Station, Austro-Hungaria
Illustration showing the surprise attack launched by Romanian troops on Ghemesh railway station in Austro-Hungaria, 1916. On the first day of hostilities between these two countries the Romanians

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