Bombing Collection (page 14)

Damaged stands at Sheffield United Football ground (Bramall Lane) following bombing raids on the city during World War Two. Date: 1944

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

Shell bursting on front line trench, Western Front, WW1
A shell bursting on a front line trench 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

Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning ops
Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning operations on the enemy - the start and return. The bomber pilot and captain finds his squadron is down for operations

Round the clock with a bomber squadron. The bomber pilot and captain starts his day with a wash; he sets out with his crew on the back of a vehicle; the crew climb a ladder to board the aircraft

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

Chonqing bombed
The Chinese city of Chongqing (Chungking) after a Japanese bombing raid Date: September 1943

British target-finding invention by G. H. Davis
Bombing through clouds during the Second World War: a British target-finding invention. Illustrating the Gen-Box principle, which sees targets invisible to the human eye. Date: 1944

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

Wuchang after Japanese bombing
The Chinese city of Wuchang, showing a scene of destruction, the result of a Japanese bombing raid Date: September 1938

Bomber v. warship and merchantman by G. H. Davis
Bomber versus warship and merchantman: difficulties confronting any German attempt at aerial blockade during the Second World War. Date: 1940

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

Air raid conditions by G. H. Davis
Air raid sky lore: conditions helping or frustrating bombers during the Second World War. 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

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

Cartoon, Knights of the Air, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Knights of the Air, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg with a scene of destruction behind them

Two airmen in French bomber, WW1
Two airmen in a French bomber biplane during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Patriotic postcard, Czech Army in Russia, WW1
Patriotic postcard showing the Czech Army in Russia during the First World War, gun in hand, protecting their homeland against murderers. Date: 1914-1918

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

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

Hartmann Attacked
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - is attacked while on a bombing raid. Date: 1902

The main bay of one of the Supermarine erecting shops on?
The main bay of one of the Supermarine erecting shops on the river Itchen prior to the German bombing during WW2. Administrative offices are on the left

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

USA Tea Car providing refreshment for bombed-out famillies
WW2 - The morning after - no homes, no gas, or water - but a USA Tea Car is there with hot tea and refreshment to care the children and families affected following the devastating raid

Canteen van - tea for anti-aircraft gun crew
Raiders overhead! Mugs of tea provided from a canteen car - the greatest boon to anti-aircraft crews, who, month after month stuck by their guns and shot down so many Luftwaffe aircraft

Nurses from Great Ormond Street Hospital examine bomb
Nurses from The Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital examine fragments from the bomb which struck the building but (thankfully) caused no loss of life - September, 1940

WW2 - London under fire - bomb damage in King Street, St James. Date: circa 1941

WW2 - London under fire - bomb damage in Pall Mall, directly opposite St. James Palace. Date: circa 1941

WW2 - London under fire - bomb damage in Duke Street, St James Date: circa 1941

WW2 - Little girl searching for her home
This charming comic social commentary card from WW2 is either a little girl pondering where her new home will be (following her evacuation from the big city) or (potentially)

WW1 - Whippet Tanks with air support - Western Front
WW1 - Tank Corps - Whippet Tanks with air support attack German positions on the Western Front. Date: circa 1917

Damage to Whitecross Street - WW2 - Blitz on London
London under fire - Damage to Whitecross Street - WW2 - Blitz on London Date: circa 1943

Hawker High Speed Fury Fighter Plane
The Hawker Fury was a British Biplane Fighter aircraft used by the RAF in the1930s. The specific High Speed Fury pictured on this promotional card was an experimental prototype which was subsequently

Martin Bomber - US Navys New Aerial Sentries of the Sea
The Martin PBM 40, 000 lb Navy Patrol Bomber - The US Navys " New Aerial Sentries of the Sea" during World War Two

Air Raid Shelters in the vicinity of The Coliseum, London
A list of Air Raid Shelters, their location and capacity, published in a London West End Theatre Programme (The Coliseum, Charing Cross). Date: circa 1930s

Three Fairey Battle Aircraft on patrol - WWII
Three Fairey Battle Aircraft on patrol over France during WWII. These aircraft entered service in 1937 - 2419 were built, production ceasing in 1941

Anti-Aircraft Gun Team - World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Heavy Bomber - WWII Date: circa 1942

Hiroshima - re-building after WWII
Reconstruction of Aioi Bridge and Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce & Industry Hall, Hiroshima, Japan. The epicentre of the explision caused by the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 was

Blitz in London -- turntable ladder in operation, WW2
Blitz in London -- turntable ladder in operation, with firefighter and hose

London bombing September 1940
London bombing, September 1940. Date: 1940

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