Bomb Collection (#16)

Night attacks on Germany by G. H. Davis
Background to an 800-bomber raid: the vast organisation behind every big night attack on Germany during the Second World War

French catapult
French using catapults, where the trenches were close together, using lengths of steel springs or even resilient tree branches as propellants

Aeroplanes of 1918
Latest aeroplanes of 1918. Bristol was a general-purpose military aircraft, a two-seater biplane, Handley Page giant bombdropper

Ground defence against enemy air attacks, WW1
Examples of ground defence against enemy air attacks during the First World War. Showing bomb-dropping by hand from an aeroplane, an aeroplane being transported on a military motor

Effects of varying speeds, wind, and height on bombing 1917
The race for raiding: Problems of bombing for Briton and Boche. Top, a comparison with a British bomber and a Gotha heavy German bomber

Tree growing in damaged stand at Manchester United
The damaged main stand at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United Football Club. W G Roughton views the tree that grew in the Grandstand. Date: 1944

Cartoon, As One Possessed, WW1
Cartoon, As One Possessed, showing how the ordinary German beer drinker has been possessed by a devil in the shape of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has brought about the outbreak of the First World War

Cartoon, Attractive Holiday Resorts, August 1914, WW1. Showing suggested posters for advertising the latest attractions at continental holiday resorts, including boating on the canal at Kiel

Bomb damage at the Leysian Mission building during WW2. London

British troops in snow, Western Front, France, WW1
British troops travelling through snow on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Effect of high explosive shell, Western Front, WW1
The effect of a high explosive shell in a town on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier writing home next to bombshell, WW1
A British soldier writing a letter home with an unexploded bombshell next to him, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Village on Western Front, France, WW1
Scene in a ruined village on the Western Front in France during World War One, with British troops and a tank. Date: circa 1916

Germanys expenditure on aircraft by G. H. Davis
Germanys new expenditure on her aircraft: five years planned expenditure on airships, sheds and aeroplanes. Illustrating the latest military experiment with Zeppelins -- guns on the roof

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

Chinese flying cadets
Between classes, Chinese flying cadets being trained by the Americans, examine a practice bomb of the type they will using in future bombing raids over Japan and Japanese held territory Date: 1942

Ground crews and heavy bombers by G. H. Davis
Background to a raid on Berlin: the ground crews who keep British heavy bombers in the air during the Second World War. Showing the vital maintenance work carried out at a British bomber base

Modern methods of sea rescue by G. H. Davis
Modern methods of sea rescue during the Second World War: day and night detection devices. Date: 1941

Luftwaffe raids on Britain by G. H. Davis
How the Luftwaffe plans raids on Britain. German bombs, methods of release, and technique of attack. Details of the latest types of bombs used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Protection of the home from air raids by G. H. Davis
Countering the air raid menace: the protection of the home during the Second World War. Refuges from bombs in every home: types of private shelters. Date: 1940

Aeroplane raid over Afganistan, 1919
An aeroplane used over Afganistan as part of the North West India frontier war in 1919. British planes were sucessfully employed to bomb native tribesmen

Finns v. Russian tanks by G. H. Davis
Finns v. Russian tanks: bombing from pits under the snow during the Second World War. How Finnish bombers get to close quarters with tanks by hiding in camouflaged pits

The great Sylt raid by G. H. Davis
The great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells. Attacking Hornum, the seaplane base on the southern end of the German island of Sylt

British night bombers by G. H. Davis
British night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War

The Croxton outrage by G. H. Davis
One of several German attacks on North Sea fishing trawlers, later countered by arming them: the Croxton outrage. How the unarmed Croxton was machine-gunned and bombed until she sank

New Russian bombs by G. H. Davis
Molotovs breadbaskets: Russias new dual-purpose bomb used during the Second World War. Its false head was filled with small incendiary bombs, released by a cap propeller

Atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll by G. H. Davis
Target for annihilation: an atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, with the fleet of warship victims assembled in the lagoon. Date: 1946

Special Pastry Spread. Charlotte Cream Boat, Chocolate Roll Wafers, Chocolate Boats, Mikado Bombs, Chantilly Tarts, Chocolate Charlotte, Chocolate Russe, Mocha Wafers, Chocolate Treepots

Sketches in Ostend, Belgium, after WW1 bombing
Sketches in Ostend, Belgium, after bombing during a Zeppelin raid in the early stages of the First World War. Showing scenes at the railway station, in the fish market

Cartoon, German arrested in the street, WW1
Cartoon showing a German arrested in the street by a policeman and a soldier, at the start of the First World War. He is protesting: But how much more times must I tell you I vas an Englishman

French aeroplane with hand bombs, WW1
Two airmen in a French aeroplane, with hand bombs ready to be dropped over enemy territory during the First World War. Date: August 1914

Gotha raid on Paris, WW1
Street scene after a Gotha (German heavy bomber) raid on Paris during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Bomb damaged building during WW2
A bomb damaged building in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Chemical warfare, Livens bomb exploding, WW1
Chemical warfare, showing white smoke from a Livens bomb exploding during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Man walking under collapsed structure, WW2
A man walking out from under a collapsed metal structure during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Two disabled tanks during WW2
Two disabled tanks at the side of a building in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Bombarded by German war-ship 1914
On 16th December 1914, Scarborough was attacked by the Imperial German Navy, damage to a house in the Cresent, Scarborough. Date: 1914

English coast resort bombarded by German war-ship
On 16th December 1914, Scarborough was attacked by the Imperial German Navy, damage to a boarding-house on St. Nicholas Cliff, Scarborough. Date: 1914

German shell damaged Scarborough 1914
On 16th December 1914, Scarborough was attacked by the Imperial German Navy, shop in South Street, Scarborough where a man was killed in the street. Date: 1929

Women workers for WWI
400, 000 women were employed by the Ministry of Munitions in 1916, theses women came from France and England and more were required to keep up with the demand. Date: 1916

Winston Churchill Inspecting a Bomb Crater in London

Bomb damage to the centre court at Wimbledon
Damage caused to the stands at Wimbledon after an air raid by German bombers. 1940

Scarborough house wrecked 1914
On 16th December 1914, Scarborough was attacked by a shell from a German war-ship, a house in Lonsdale Road, Scarborough. Date: 1941

Scarborough shelled by Germans WWI
Photograph of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby where on 16th December 1914, the town was attacked by the Imperial German Navy from the sea with 137 fatalities and 592 casualties. Date: 1914

Anarchist Outrages 8
This house in the rue de Clichy, targeted as the home of a hostile politician, is the scene of a bomb attack by the anarchist Ravachol. Date: 1892

Anarchist Outrages 2
Ravachol (on left) and fellow- anarchists on trial for bomb outrages : Ravachol is spared the guillotine through extenuating circumstances but faces other charges. Date: 1892

Bomb damage in south London, 25 October 1940

WW2 - Bomb Damage in London - Coats and Hats left on hooks
WW2 - " Wheres George?" - Bomb Damage in London - Coats and Hats left on hooks while the floor has disappeared. Date: 1940

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