Bomb Collection (page 11)

Second World War. Underwater mine explosion
SECOND WORLD WAR (1939-1945). Underwater mine explosion

Munitions in the Balkan war-area
A British soldier near an underground bomb-proof magazine designed as a reserve magazine in proximity to one of the British hevay-gun batteries during WW1. Date: 1916

Personal snaps (poly-photos)
Personal photographs taken in England 5 snaps showing unexploded bomb, bus with gas supply for fuel and firemen at play. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Gunners prepared to face the gas 1916
French gunners wearing masks and helmets against the asphyxiating gases sometimes released far from the battlefront. 1916

Stukas Bomb England
JU-87 Stukas depicted dive- bombing a chemical factory in central England, though in practice they lack the range to make such an attack possible, let alone feasible Date: October 1940

Dismantling Cannon St station, winter of 1959
men working at night in the cold winter of January 1959 to dismantle the roof of Cannon Street train station in London, bomb damaged during the Second World War

Cannon Street station being dismantled in 1961
Dismantling one of Londons bombed buildings, Cannon Street station, which was built in 1866. The two towers still stand today. Date: 1961

Site around St. Pauls Cathedral being cleared
St. Pauls Cathedral, standing in a wilderness of bomb damage but with the area around being cleared ready for modern buildings. Picture shows foundations being laid for the Bank of England annexe

Old impact marks of volcanic bombs from an ancient volcano eruption basalt rocks at the East shore of Ilot Gabriel island Round Island and Ile aux Serpents island on horizon June North of Mauritius

Cartoon, A failure, WW1
Cartoon, A failure. Two French soldiers coming out of a cafe remark that a shell has fallen in the middle of the street, avoiding all the African soldiers fighting with the German army

Churchill visits the Normandy Front during WWII
Winston Churchill pays a three day visit to the Normandy Front, accompanied by General Ismay. His tour covered Caen, Cherbourg, flying-bomb sites and the beaches. Date: 1944

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

A lesson arranged by the Enemy. H. M. Bateman
" A Lesson arranged by the enemy. The Higher Education." In this cartoon Bateman imagines a schoolmaster getting his students out of bed at night to look at a zeppelin fly past. Date: 1916

Playing the Game 1905 and 1915
Cartoon contrasting a schoolboy aiming snowballs with his older self, ten years later, transferring his skills in the trenches and readying himself to show some grenades

WW1 - Firing a mortar
WW1 - Three soldiers positioned in a dug-out trench, aiming and firing a mortar at its target. Date: circa 1915

WW1 - French airship returning from action
WW1 - An aerial view of an open landscape, and a French dirigible returning to its shed on the morning after a successful raid over upper Alsace. Date: 1915

WW1 - German airmen in combat
WW1 - A drawing from a German artist for a German newspaper who witnessed the airmen in a battle royal in mid-air. The two German officers in a biplane attack the French captive balloon shown below

WW1 - North Country troop trench warfare in Polygon Wood
WW1 - Out of their lairs in Polygon Wood, North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners. Polygon Wood is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke, Belgium. Date: 1917

North American B-25J Mitchell -of 310th Bomb Group, US 12th Air Force

Boeing B-29 of 509th Composite Grp, 20th Air Force dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 5 Aug 1945

Boeing B-17G five of 401st Bomb Squadron
Boeing B-17G five of 401st Bomb Sdn

Beech AT-11-this adaptation of the Beech 18 was used to train navigators and bomb aimers

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -despite its slow and ponderous performance, the Whitley was the first RAF aircraft to bomb a German target

Employment of dogs in warfare, French Lines, WW1
Employment of dogs in warfare, showing shelters for Red Cross dogs within the French Lines. The kennels are bombproof and made as comfortable as possible. Date: 1915

RAF Airbase, Thought to be at Driffield, Yorkshire, England. Showing Luftwaffe Bomb Damage - World War Two Date: 1940

Railway Station Interior, Paris, France. Bomb Damage - World War One Date: 1916

Rugby Terrace, Hartlepool, Northumberland
Rugby Terrace, Hartlepool, near Middlesbrough, Northumberland, England. WWI Bomb Damage from Zeppelins Date: 1910s

WW2 Bomb Damage, Cologne - K�North Rhine-Westphalia
World War 2 Bomb Damage, Cologne/K� North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Date: 1940s

The latest warfare, bomb thrower in action, WW1
Stopping a counter attack after carrying the first line of enemy trenches. A British bomb thrower, backed up by support, hurls a bomb or grenade towards German reinforcements. Date: 1915

Ruined houses at Bury St Edmunds following air raid, 1915
Firemen on the ruins of houses destroyed at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk by incendiary bombs dropped in an air raid in 1915. Date: 1915

Line of washing, Balham, SW London
A line of washing behind some houses in the Zennor Road area of Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and Hangars
WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and their targets - the Zeppelin Sheds in Dusseldorf. The picture shows 1) The Zeppelin shed at Bickendorf, 2) The Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, 3) An air-bomb

London. Bombed Streets in 1941. Drawing and watercolor by Henry Moore. Drawing. Private Collection

OPPENHEIMER, Julius Robert (1904-1967). American physicist

Hundred Years War. Siege of Rouen by the English army of Henry V, from July 1418 to January 1419. Engraving

WWI. France (1914-1918). The neighborhood of small industries in Reims destroyed by bombing. In the background the cathedral of Reims. Painting

Bomb damage in Shameen and Canton, China, 1938
An aerial view of Canton and the island of Shameen, following bombardment by the Japanese in 1938. Date: 1938

Ancient volcanic bombs - near extinct mud volcano. Karaburum - near Kumdag - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

The Persuading of the Pacifist, by W. Heath Robinson
The Persuading of the Pacifist -Even more unpleasant than swallowing his own words A William Heath Robinson cartoon depicting a falling bomb landing directly in the mouth of a speech-making pacifist

The Limit, WW1 cartoon by Heath Robinson
Mrs Blennernuggit: " Well, now, I DO call that rude! And so many aeroplanes about, too!" A lady in her bath is surprised by a sudden air raid during the First World War. Date: 1918

With British Bombers on the Western Front
Bombing along an enemy trench with the Mills grenade. The bomb throwers throw grenades across the traverse of the trench as indicated allowing the riflemen to charge ahead

Avro Vulcan XA903 Farnborough
First public appearance of the then unnamed stand-off bomb. Eventually called Blue Steel it became the standard British air carried nuclear weapon

Bombs and bombing, methods and types of projectiles
The aerial bomber and his waepons: The wimperis sight used in the R.A.F in conjunction with a press-button bomb-release to ensure hitting the target; and other methods of bomb attack. Date: 1939

A corner of the Spanish gardens at Derry and Toms, c. 1940s
A postcard showing a corner of the Spanish gardens at Derry and Toms roof garden, Kensington High Street, central London. This photograph shows the damaged bell-tower that was hit during World War

Lady Sarah Wilsons bomb-proof shelter at Mafeking, 1900
Lady Sarah Wilson (1865 - 1929), formerly Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, youngest child of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

Sheet Music That Ragtime Suffragette. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1913, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, presented That Ragtime Suffragette, with music by Nat D. Ayer & lyrics by Harry Williams

Blitz in London -- aftermath of bombing, with some people sorting through the rubble and others stopping for a refreshment break. Date: 1940s

Women Munitions Worker WW1. Woman in munitions factory proudly points to a large bomb and exclaims, Thats the stuff to give em! Date: circa 1916

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