Bombs Collection (page 2)

NO H -BOMBS slogan on brick wall
NO H-BOMBS painted on a brick wall, together with the CND symbol. Date: circa 1960s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coo - you ought to have seen ours
The Caption reads Coo! You ought to have seen ours. The bombs look like what were called Butterfly bombs. These were anti-personnel weapons dropped for people to pick up

Are we uprooted? No! by G. L Stampa
Are we uprooted? No! Despite the fact that a three storey house has had a huge explosion near by and shrapnel has pierced through their home

WW1 - Attack on London - St. Batholomew the Great
circa 1910s

World War II fires burning Pforzheim, Germany
World War II vintage photograph - fires burning and bombs exploding over Pforzheim, Germany

World War II B-29 Superfortress bombers, Yokohama
Vintage World War II photograph - incendiary bombs shower from B-29 Superfortress aircraft over the Japanese city of Yokohama

WW II - Mitchell bombers of the RAF Arnhem, Netherlands
World War II - Mitchell bombers of the RAF dropping bombs on Arnhem, Netherlands

Clearing debris during the Blitz
This image was generated using WaterMark, designed and engineered by HighWater Designs Ltd

Fighting incendiary bombs in the street. Date: circa 1941

Men painting warning signs for unexploded bombs, Sept 1939
ARP volunteers painting wooden boards with; " keep clear unexploded bomb" to be used as a warning to civilians when a bomb fails to explode. Date: 1939

Mother searching for her belongings in debris 1939
Mother searching for her belongings as her children watch in the debris of her home in Warsaw, having been hit in a German air raid in the first few weeks of the German invasion of Poland. Date: 1939

Aftermath of an incendiary bomb in Poland 1939
Polish civilians as they deal with a fire caused by an incendiary bomb in Poland. The Sphere contextualises the man on the left; describing him as a butcher whose daughter had been injured in an

Civilians filling sandbags for air raid shelters 1939
Civilians, including females in bikini tops and a man in a suit, working together to fill sandbags for use in the construction of public air raid shelters. September 1939

Construction of sandbag air raid shelter, September 1939
Construction of a large public air raid shelter from sandbags in North London, shortly after the outbreak of war. September 1939

German plane wreckage on the outskirts of Warsaw, Sept 1939
A crowd inspects the remnants of a German plane, having been shot down just outside Warsaw as part of the Polish resistance to German invasion, in September 1939. September 1939

The Infernal used by the English Navy at St. Malo s. A floating mine constructed in a vessel with sand, gunpowder, masonry, bombs and fireworks. Copperplate engraving by N.C

Ancient guns, mortar, bomb, perrier, etc
Ancient guns from Valturinns, Uffano 1-7, fanciful elbow-piece mortar 3, bombard 8, bombs 9, 10, and perrier stone-thrower chambers 11, 12

Air and sea battle between British and German forces, WW2
A combined air and sea battle in the North Sea between British and German forces during the early stages of the Second World War

Boston Bombers - RAF Boston Bombers - RAF
Boston Bombers - RAF - American Douglas Aircraft of which Le Havoc is the Night Fighter version. Latest models powered with two 1, 600 H.P. Wright Cyclone Engines. Date: circa 1940s

Poster, British bombs are dropping on Germany, WW2
Poster, British bombs are dropping on Germany with ever increasing weight, Second World War. circa 1940

Bombed shop, London Road, Manchester
Bombed shop in London Road, Manchester, May 1939, believed to be caused by an IRA bomb. 1939

Police searching debris after bomb explosion, London
Police searching debris after bombs concealed in mailbags exploded at Euston Station, London, 6 February 1940. 1940

Bomb Store, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Bomb Store, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Loading Bombs onto an RAF Bomber prior to a patrol flight. Date: circa 1940

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

Avro Lancaster B. I PP741
Avro Lancaster B.I PP741, in storage after disposal. Of note are the bulged bomb-bay doors for carrying Tallboy 12, 000lb bombs and 8, 000lb Cookies. Date: circa 1946

British soldier about to throw a hand grenade, during the storming of a German trench

An early bomb disposal method to detect unexploded bombs
French soldier holding an electrical induction balance, capable of detecting buried explosive shells. These shells had been causing large numbers of casualties to civilian agricultural workers

EVACUEES AT CATFORD
Children enter Catford station, southeast London, prior to boarding the train which will take them to where they will be safe from German bombs Date: summer 1940

Douglas Boston III with bombs on the under-wing store stations. Date: circa 1944

WW1 - A German propaganda view (unlike this image, the crews of all seven aircraft survived the raid!) of the aerial and naval combat at Cuxhaven, a German North Sea Port. During the First World War

Ware butterfly bombs - A passing despatch rider
Photograph: Ware butterfly bombs - A passing despatch rider [... ] of Dower Street, Flatbridge, [... ] read a unique road sign wa[... ] beach-head against ?butterfly? bombs. Picture issued April ?

WW2 poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug
WW2 Air Ministry poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug seen in cross-section. Date: 1944

WW1 - British bomb used in Gallipoli, 1915
WW1 - A report documenting evidence of one of the great bombs used by the allied airmen in Gallipoli. Date: 1915

Entrance to public dug out bomb shelter in Margate, WW1
The entrance to a public dug-out in Trinity Square, Margate, Kent, designed to offer underground safety to members of the public during air raids during the First World War

Blitz in London -- firefighters in action with hose, WW2
Blitz in London -- a group of firefighters in action with a hosepipe, surrounded by rubble. Date: 1940s

Blitz in London -- Vauxhall Bridge Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- Vauxhall Bridge Road, 17 September 1940. with debris following an air raid, and men at work clearing up. Date: 1940

Types of grenades in WWI
The Marten Hale hand grenade, which can be also fitted to any type of service rifle. Hale time grenade, bomb is thrown, the ignition of the time-fuse does not occur until the grenade reaches a

Details of the V2 rocket bomb by G. H. Davis
Details of the German V2 rocket bomb, comparing its size with a V1, a house and a London bus. A comparison of its fuel economy with a Lancaster bomber

Damage to Canterbury during WW2 - Baedeker Blitz
" Canterbury under fire" - Damage sustained by bombing on the city by German planes of the luftwaffe during WW2

Blitz in London -- Chiesmans, Lewisham High Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- a firefighter, wearing an oilskin coat, damping down the aftermath of an incendiary bomb attack on Chiesmans depository in Lewisham High Street, SE13

German Gotha G. V heavy bomber, WW1
A German Gotha G.V heavy bomber, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War, mostly for night bombing. Bombs can be seen attached to the undercarriage. 1917-1918

Old Bill and Co by Bruce Bairnsfather
An ARP warden stands on a rooftop during a very lively air raid and looks down a chimney pot with his binoculars telling those hiding inside, I said, I reckon its time you went to the shelter. 1940

Stick of dynamite
Nobel - Stick of Dynamite/ Dynamite Cartridge

Bomb party using cigarettes to light fuses, WWI
A bombing party detachment of the Buffs at Bethune using cigarettes to light fuses in the pouring rain before throwing. The men held off the Germans for 17 1/2 hours

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

Taking Shelter in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station
Crowds seek refuge in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station during a Luftwaffe air raid. 1940

Old Bill and Co. October 1940
" I ll let yet get away with it this time, but remember! I got a front door, h and a knocker!" Bruce Bairnsfather jokes that the damage inflicted on homes by German air raids has made it

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