Bombing Collection (page 8)

WW1 - German Zeppelin picked by Searchlights over Woodford
WW1 - German Zeppelin L.15 picked out by Searchlights over Woodford, North East London on 13th October 1915. The first raid to target the capital. Date: 1915

Courtrai (Kortrijk), Belgium -- Rue de la Plume, WW1
Courtrai (Kortrijk), Belgium -- bombed houses in the Rue de la Plume during WW1. Date: 1914-1918

The Channel Islands - Caves Exterior - Rocky in let and Caves. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands. Hohlgangsanlage are a number of tunnels constructed in Jersey by occupying

Dunkirk, France - interior of Saint Eloi Church, WW1
Dunkirk, France - interior of Saint Eloi Church after bombing during WW1. Date: 1914-1916

Crimean War, Kerch from the road to Simferopol
Crimean War -- view of Kerch from the road to Simferopol, bombardment of the town. 1855

Bombing of Bergues - damage to Place Gambetta, WW1
People clearing a corner of the Place Gambetta, in the French city of Bergues, after damage caused during WW1 bombing of the city. 1914-1915

WW1 - London in wartime searchlights over the River Thames Date: circa 1917

WW1 - The Cuxhaven Action - aerial and naval combat
WW1 - Aerial and naval combat at Cuxhaven, a German North Sea Port. During the First World War. Nordholz Airbase with its airship hangars, near Nordholz to the south of Cuxhaven

WW2 - Pilots Sketch of his Spitfire Squadrons Officers
WW2 - A fun sketch by Pilot Christian Mazo of his Spitfire Squadrons Officers, playfully bombing a hapless German. No. 329 Squadron appears to have connections to the Free French (note livery)

Memorial Cenotaph and Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
The Memorial Cenotaph and the Genbaku Domu, Atomic Bomb Dome, in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II

Reflection of the Genbaku Domu, Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Reflection of the Genbaku Domu, Atomic Bomb Dome, in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II

American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2
American 20th US Bomber Command Superfortresses bombing a Japanese supply depot near Rangoon, Burma, in March 1945 during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Germany. Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. 1891-1895. Built by Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841-1924). Bombed during World War II

John William Mills (b. 1933). English sculptor. Blitz (1991). Memorial in honor of firefighters who lost their lives in service after suppressing fires caused by German bombing of the Luftwaffe

Cartoon, Hell for Horses, WW1
Cartoon, Hell for Horses. A horse on the battlefield says that those who say Paris is hell for horses should give this place a try. Date: 1917

Ymca Tea Car
War workers and troops form a queue and others enjoy a cuppa and a snack on the bonnet of the YMCA " Tea Car", providing refreshments for them and those made homeless by bombing Date

Cartoon, A masterpiece of archikulture, WW1
Cartoon, A masterpiece of archikulture, showing a crumbling ruin resulting from German bombing during the First World War. Date: 1915

London Blitzed 1941
Widespread destruction round the City of London - here a blaze at Temple - bears witness to the intensity of the German attack. Date: January 1941

Bombing Italy Defences
An Italian defence tower destroyed by Allied bombing. Date: circa 1942

Scapa Flow Bombed
German bombers attack the British fleet at their base at Scapa Flow, Scotland, and do enormous damage to naval vessels Date: March 1940

Air Raid Shelter Items
Various types of equipment which would be useful for using in an shelter during an air raid, including cutlery, pots and pans and a travel case with drawers in it, Date: 1939 - 1945

Bombing the Aliens
The Impossible World [Eando Binder] The spaceships from Earth drop their bombs on the cities of the aliens Date: 1939

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

Cartoon, The Inventors Dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Inventors Dream. An inventor dreams of fantastic new weaponry for delivery next spring. Date: 1917

Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1
Cartoon, During the bombardment. A British soldier eats from a hamper during a bombing raid. He tells another soldier, Jim, that when he eats quickly he gets the hiccups -- can he suggest a remedy

Sphere cover - East Coast bombardments, Hartlepool chapel
The bombardment of the East Coast - the scene outside a Hartlepool Baptist Chapel. Scene painted by Fortunino Matania based on a sketch by fellow Sphere artist, G. H

Nijmegen Bridge under attack by enemy aircraft, WW2
Nijmegen Bridge, the vital bridgehead in the Eindhoven corridor, under attack by enemy aircraft during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Zeppelinanities: The airy humour of the Hun by H. M. Bateman
" Zeppelinanities. The airy humour of the Hun: a German air-raiders air-raising narrative illustrated by our caricaturist." This cartoon depicts the German zeppelin raid on London on 8

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

Royal Naval Air Service in Great War Deeds, WW1
Flight Commander Hewlett of the Royal Naval Air Service (before the RAF was formed) almost colliding with a mast of a German warship during the air raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914

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 - German aircraft views the English Navy - North Sea
WW1 - A German illustration of a battle in the North Sea showing a German aircraft beating-off the English Navy. Three enemy merchant-vessels are being destroyed

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

Junkers Ju 88A -while used mainly for horizontal bombing, the type could be employed as an anti-shipping dive bomber

Junkers Ju 86G -although relegated to training, some were commandeered for bombing on the Eastern Front

Handley Page Harrow -relegated from bombing by late 1939, the Harrow was used as a transport

De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito -here is the very first of this illustrious line Built mainly of wood, the Mosquito proved readily adaptable for bombing, fighting or reconnaissance

Consolidated B-24J pair aloft bombing

Consolidated B-24, 4450443 of 15th Air Force bombing railyards at Muhldorf, Germany, 19 March 1945

Boeing B-29 bombing up, Saipan, Nov 1944

Avro 504B two-seater used by RNAS
Avro 504B two-seater (one of 40 produced) used by the RNAS, for example in bombing raids. Date: circa 1914-1918

Reopening of the Little Theatre, 1920
Feature in The Sphere reporting on the reopening of the Little Theatre, Adelphi, London which opened its doors in 1920 after it had been destroyed in a bombing raid on 4 September 1917

The East Coast is SO bracing, WW1 cartoon
The East Coast is SO bracing - with apologies to the famous " Hassall" poster. Cartoon by J. H. Thorpe referencing John Hassalls famous jolly Skegness is so bracing travel poster

WW2 Christmas card, air raid
WW2 Christmas card, keeping calm in an air raid. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, LCC Ambulance service
WW2 Christmas card, London County Council Ambulance service, design by Fougasse. Date: 1941

WW1 - Ad for repirators - threat of gas attack by Zeppelins
WW1 - Advertisement for Freers Repirators from Cooper & Son of King Street, Gravesend, to counter the threat of attack by poison gas bombs, dropped from Zeppelins during an air raid. Date: circa 1915

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