Exploding Collection (#2)

Florimond Herve Photo
FLORIMOND HERVE French composer of Mam zelle Nitouche and other operettas, who died from an exploding champagne bottle : photo 1870. Date: 1825 - 1892

British tanks under German fire, WW1
British tanks under attack from German heavy artillery and Minenwerfer (short range mortar) fire towards the end of the First World War. Date: September 1918

Aerial photograph, Fort Douaumont, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of a bomb exploding in Fort Douaumont, north eastern France, during the First World War. The village of Douaumont was destroyed during the Battle of Verdun

Howitzer smoke barrage, Salisbury Plain, WW1
A smoke barrage from a 4.5 inch Howitzer, formed by ten shells bursting similtaneously, during the First World War. Probably at the Chemical Warfare School at Porton on Salisbury Plain

British fighter plane, WWI by George Ranstead
A British single seat fighter plane up in the sky during aerial combat (though no other planes seems to be about). Note the exploding shells all around

Battlefield with mortar rounds and running soldiers
Distant view of a battlefield during the First World War, with mortar rounds exploding and soldiers running

Exploding shell WWI
Shell exploding near German troops manning a trench on the Western Front during World War I

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

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

Armetieres 1918
A British shell bursting in Armentieres and a soldier running to evacuate the town on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

First Battle of the Scarpe 1917
An exploding dump in Arras during the First Battle of the Scarpe (First Battles of Arras) on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Mine exploding 1917
A mine exploding at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917

Destroying barbed wire 1916
The destruction of barbed wire, smashed by exploding Trench Mortars

Bombing of Berlin, Germany; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing bombs exploding in Berlins industrial zone during an Allied air-raid on the German capital, 6th August 1944

Fleeing An Exploding Star
THE STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton. Red spacecraft speed away from an exploding star, three being blown apart having not got far enough away

Disaster on the Dunes: the Germans blow up the bridges and isolate the British battalions (location unknown)

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