Bombs Collection (page 7)

Blitz on London -- Oxford Street, WW2
Fire crews, using radial branches, extinguishing fires in Londons main shopping district of Oxford Street, W1, after high explosive and incendiary bombs caused widespread damage

Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the Army

Bombs reveal underground railway in Warsaw, 1939
Following the bombardment and subsequent invasion of Warsaw, photograph revealing the citys underground railway system only a few feet below the surface. Date: 1939

German mine landed on Dutch coast, 1939
A huge German mine pictured on the beach along the Dutch coast where numerous mines drifted during the first few weeks of World War II

German bomb used in Gotha heavy bombers, WW1
A large German bomb, taller than a man and weighing 300 kg (660 pounds), of the type used in the Gotha heavy bomber during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

American troops in action near Le Nefour, France, WW1
American troops in action, firing phosphorous bombs near Le Nefour, France, during the First World War. Date: 26 October 1918

German AEG biplane with ground crew, WW1
A German AEG bomber biplane, with ground crew fitting a large (100 kg) bomb, on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Clearing up bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
British troops helping to clear up bomb damage caused by the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War

At the school for Strafing
At count zeppelins evening classes for bomb droppers. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1916

German troops with smoke bombs, Romania, WW1
German stormtrooperss advancing through smoke bombs on the Eastern Front in Romania during the First World War. Date: 1917

German bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
Damage caused by bombs dropped from the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Three people were killed and three injured

London bomb damage
Residents from the bomb damaged street, peer through a huge whole in their house, viewing the utter destruction caused by Goerings men, and salvaging clothes and blankets from the ruins

German wartime poster, how to deal with a fire bomb -- tackle it with water or sand. 1940s

WWI postcard by George Ranstead
Humorous postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War, showing a sergeant handing a bomb to a rather green looking new recruit on the battlefield and saying, Ere you are

Anarchy by H. M. Bateman
Anarchy, as imagined by a peaceful British humorist (H. M. Bateman) showing two mischievous rather than menacing anarchists with a large comedy style bomb which appears to dwarf them. Date: 1909

Bones Make Explosives - World War II poster
World War Two poster encouraging civilians on the Home Front to save all bones for salvage as they can be made into bombs for the war effort

Lieutenant Rex Warneford - WWI Ace Hero
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald ( Rex ) Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

French bombs WWI
French mortar bombs in reserve trench during World War I

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

Captured Russian bombs WWII
Captured Russian bombs for use in trench mortars, some of the heavier types are equipped with a revolving fan. Finland during World War II

Bomb remnants WWII
Remnants of a Russian bomb which fell near the front line in Finland on the Mannerheim line during World War II

Captured Russian explosive WWII
Captured Russian high explosive bomb during World War II

War Effort WWII
A bomb making factory showing the production of bombs in the machine room during World War II

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (4 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Young men, boys and women of all ages fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (1 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (3 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Bargains in Bombs
Anarchists at sale on the Western Front. Several good hand-grenades, suitable for elections were sold. The auctioneers sidekick, Bairnsfathers creation, " Old Bill", tells one anarchist

Booby Trap
A British soldier sets off a booby trap on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Fairly Tree d
A soldier disguised rather improbably as a tree, scampers gingerly through the mud of the West Front, doing his best to avoid a cluster of enemy shells falling nearby

World War I bomb factory
Women workers welding and making bombs in a bomb factory during World War I

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

Woolley Earns Vc / Hill 60
2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley of the Queen Victorias Rifles, a territorial regiment, earns the Victoria Cross on Hill 60 by continually throwing bombs

A. D. 19(?)
Two veteran Tommies with Methuselah-like beards are still manning the trenches of the Western front in an unspecified year sometime in the future; a light-hearted comment on the endless

One Year of World War 1914-15 - highlighting the allies to the German war effort including the Ottoman Empire

Bombing of Berlin, Germany; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing bombs exploding in Berlins industrial zone during an Allied air-raid on the German capital, 6th August 1944

Aerial Photograph of Stavanger Airfield; Second World War, 1
Aerial photograph taken by a Royal Air Force bomber during a raid on the German-held airfield at Stavanger in Norway, April 1940

SaF bomber attacking German barracks in North Africa; Secon
Aerial photograph showing a South African Air Force bomber attacking a German barracks at Mareth in Tunisia during the Spring of 1943

Bombs falling on Knapsack Power Station; Second World War, 1
Aerial photograph, taken from the interior of a Royal Air Force Blenheim bomber, showing bombs dropping towards Knapsack power station, near Cologne in Germany, 12th August 1941

British 10-ton Bomb on the production line; Second World War
Photograph showing a 10-ton bomb being moved along the production line at an ordnance factory in Britain, 1945. This was one of the largest types of high explosive bombs dropped by the Royal Air

Island of Krakatoa, in the straits of Sunda. The volcano erupted 4 times in 1883. The blast was estimated to have had the power of 10000 hydrogen bombs

German Radio-Controlled Rocket Bomb; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing a German radio-controlled, rocket propelled, flying bomb used in the Second World War. These bombs were typically carried underneath a bomber (shown bottom left)

Mementos of the attack
The burned-out remains of three German incendiary bombs following an attack on the Tyneside district on April 17th 1915

Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R. N. 1915
Portrait of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Warneford of the Royal Navy Air Service. Warneford became the first airman to destroy a Zeppelin in the air

The Grasshopper
A cross-bow device, nicknamed, La Sauterelle or The Grasshopper, used by French soldiers to throw bombs twenty to eighty metres from the trenches

The Melbourne Riots
A plain clothes policeman, in centre, using his revolver to keep strikers apart from a free labourer during the Melbourne Waterside Workers strike of 1928

Colossal impudence: Protection against English gas-bombs
German illustration showing a German Red-Cross worker wearing protection against English gas-bombs. The image is accompanied by indignant ILN editorial

Emile Henry, Anarchist
EMILE HENRY - French anarchist son of a communard exiled in Spain, responsible for two terrorist bombs in Paris : after the Cafe Terminus affair captured and guillotined

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