Bombing Collection (page 9)

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

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

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

First World War (1918). Bombing by the French. Plane Br駵 et throwing 90 bombs. Illustration by Etienne Cournault (August, 1918). Drawing

First World War (1914). Ypres bombing (Belgium) with German mortar bombs (November, 1914). Illustration by G. Fraipont. Drawing

World War I. Bombing Ludwigshafen
First World War (1914-1918). Bombardment of Ludwigshafen by a French squad (26th May 1915). Picture by Henry Farr鮠 Drawing

British raid on German lines through poison gas
A British bombing party makes a raid on German lines through clouds of poison gas. Both sides are wearing their own versions of gas masks - the British version looking somewhat more primitive

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

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

How the Gotha plane aims its bombs, WW1
Diagram showing how the bomber in a Gotha plane aimed its bombs over Britain during the First World War. To reduce the element of luck

Handley-Page bomb-carrying biplane, WW1
A British Handley-Page biplane, equipped with two Rolls-Royce engines at 250 h.p. each driving a tractor screw. It was also fitted with three machine-guns - one forward-facing

Sir Ernest Gowers watching rescue operations, WW2
Sir Ernest Gowers (1880-1966), civil servant in charge of Civil Defence in London, watching rescue operations during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

NFS personnel helping evacuees, St Pancras, WW2
NFS personnel helping evacuees board a train at St Pancras railway station, 14 July 1944, as part of an evacuation exercise during a period of bombing. Date: 1944

NFS personnel unloading luggage, St Pancras, WW2
NFS personnel helping to unload luggage from buses onto trolleys outside St Pancras railway station, 14 July 1944, as part of an evacuation exercise during a period of bombing. Date: 1944

NFS firefighter helping evacuees, St Pancras, WW2
NFS firefighter handing a baby to its mother after she is safely installed in a railway carriage at St Pancras railway station, 14 July 1944

NFS personnel loading luggage, St Pancras, WW2
NFS personnel helping to load luggage from a trolley onto a train at St Pancras railway station, 14 July 1944, as part of an evacuation exercise during a period of bombing. Date: 1944

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