Bombs Collection (page 8)

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

Woman / Munitions
A woman working in an ammunitions factory

Tube Station Shelter
A group of ladies chat on the platform at Aldwych underground station, sheltering from the danger of German bombs

Russia / 1907 / St Searches
In St Petersburg, passers-by are searched for bombs and other weapons

Atomic Bomb Test
An atomic bomb is exploded as part of the U.S. test program - the card says it should be equally edifying for philatelist, historian and philosopher

How Bombs are Dropped
At the start of the war, the technique of dropping bombs was primitive, and even flying at low level, precision was out of the question

Hunting with Bombs
Inevitably, innocent animals will be among the victims of indiscriminate aerial bombardment

Aerial Bombardment
Alas, there are sure to be ill-disposed persons who will exploit flight for their own evil purposes, dropping bombs, for example, onto the unfortunate earthbound folk

Military Airship
In 1910, it is safe to predict that airships will play a part in a future war. This one is causing immense damage with its bombs, but is being fired upon in its turn

Shells Abandoned / Cambrai
A British soldier inspects a large haul of shells abandoned by the Germans near Cambrai during the offensive of 1917. Roofless houses provide a poignant backdrop

Futuristic aeroplane dropping bombs
A futuristic scene showing an aeroplane dropping bombs on the ground below

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