Bombing Collection (page 3)

The King and Queen survey bomb damage, Buckingham Palace, London, WWII, 1940. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth looking at the aftermath of a German bombing raid on 11 September 1940 which destroyed

Beschiessung von Port Arthur durch die Japaner, c1905. (Bombardment of Port Arthur by the Japanese.) The Siege of Port Arthur (August 1, 1904 - January 2, 1905)

The Americans Lend a Hand, 1940-1942, (1943). Strategic bombing during World War II. A bombing attack by US Flying Fortresses knocks out a key airfield at Abbeville

Their hearts are high, 1941. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

RAF Bomber Command operations room, 1941. The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, with his staff, plans the nights operations. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

The raid is over, but the crews task is not yet finished, 1941. RAF bomber crew being debriefed after a raid. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

RAF Bomber Command operations room during a raid, 1941. Meanwhile, at the Station, the positions of the raiding aircraft are now being plotted. From Bomber Command

The target to-night is... 1941. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Back from Bergen, 1941. The crews of two of the Hampden bombers which attacked German fleet concentrations in Bergen Fjord, Norway. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

RAF bomber radio operator, 1941. He helps the navigator and, with the air gunner, does the fighting. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Bomber Command pilot, 1941. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

RAF bomber crew, 1941. Captain and crew form a team, upon a team, upon whose close co-ordination the success of every flight depends: (left to right) navigator, radio operator, rear gunner, captain

Front page of Bomber Command, 1941. From Bomber Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Air raid damage in Croydon, 1915 (1935). Houses in Eridge Road damaged by bombs dropped from German Zeppelins. From King Emperors Jubilee, by F. G. H

What British Bombers Did at Bremen on the Weser, 1945. The Bombing of Bremen in World War II by the British Royal Air Force

Londons Guildhall after the fire of December 29th December 1940. The Guildhall after the Second Great Fire of London, the name used at the time to refer to one of the most destructive air raids of

An artists impression of a Fairey Swordfish sinking a U Boat in the North Sea, 1940. The Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber biplane designed by the Fairey Aviation Company and W.S. Hunt

The bombs of Sampson Squadron, (1898), 1920s
The bombs of Sampson Squadron. On July 6th, 1898 the American Squadron bombarded the Morro and then Santiago, causing terrible effects

Captain Peter Strasser, German airship fleet commander, World War I, 1916-1918 (1933). Strasser (1876-1918) was commander of the German Navys fleet of Zeppelin airships during the First World War

Damage done in the first bombing raid on London, 1915 (1937). Artist: Central Press
Damage done in the first bombing raid on London, 1915 (1937). On 31st May 1915, Zeppelin LZ38 of the German Army carried out the first air raid on London

Destruction wrought by German Zeppelin bombs, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Destruction wrought by German Zeppelin bombs, World War I, 1914-1918. The Germans launched Zeppelin raids against various locations in Britain, including London, from 1915 onwards

The damage done by a German Zeppelin bomb, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
The damage done by a German Zeppelin bomb, World War I, 1914-1918. The Germans launched Zeppelin raids against various locations in Britain, including London, from 1915 onwards

Zeppelin bombardment of Antwerp, First World War, 24 August 1914. Artist: RG Mathews
Zeppelin bombardment of Antwerp, First World War, 24 August 1914. Illustration from The Great War HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

The bombardment of Strasburg, France, 1875. During the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Strasbourg, the city was heavily bombarded by the Prussian army

Sphinx damaged by a German bomb dropped on the Embankment, 4th September 1917, (1935). A print from King Emperors Jubilee, 1910-1935, by FGH Salusbury, Daily Express Publications, London, 1935

Front cover of Coastal Command, 1943. Coastal Command was a booklet issued for the Air Ministry by the Ministry of Information

The iron-clad frigate, new ironsides, and two Ericsson batteries going into action at Charleston, 1863. A print from a supplement of The Illustrated London News, 9th May 1863. Hand-coloured later

Cathedral of Reims, First World War, 19 April 1917

Cuxhaven Raid, 25 December 1914, (1926). Artist: Charles Fouqueray
Cuxhaven Raid, 25 December 1914, (1926). On Christmas Day 1914 the British launched a comined air and naval attack on the Zeppelin bases at Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany

A French squadron of daytime bombers above a sea of clouds, 1918, (1926). Artist: Etienne Cournault
A French squadron of daytime bombers above a sea of clouds, 1918, (1926)

British air bombardment over the German lines, World War I, 1914-1918 (1926). Artist: Joseph Simpson
British air bombardment over the German lines, World War I, 1914-1918 (1926)

French squadron on the objective; factories at the edge of a river, 1918, (1926). Artist: Etienne Cournault
French squadron on the objective; Factories at the edge of a river, 1918, (1926). French aircraft in action on the Western Front during the First World War

A Breguet French biplane bomber in action, c1917 (1926)

Alexandria, During the Bombardment, 1882, (19th century). British ships attack the Egyptian port

Damage after a raid by German Gotha bombers, Paris, 11th March 1918

Ruins of the Renault Factory, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, c1942. The Renault factory, in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt just west of the centre of Paris, was making an estimated 18

The attack on Valparaiso, the Chilean Revolution, 1891. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 13th June 1891

German bombing of Paris, 30th August 1914, (1919). Artist: Andre Helle
German bombing of Paris, 30th August 1914, (1919). A book of the principal events of the war period. A print from Le livre des heures heroiques et douloureuses des annees, by Andre Helle

Bomb damage at a Renault factory, Sevres, Paris, 4 April 1943. The factory was bombed by aircraft of the US 8th Air Force

Renault factory destroyed by Allied bombing, Sevres, near Paris, 1940-1944

A woman leaving her burning house in a bombed street, Germany, 1945. She carries the few possessions she has been able to salvage

Preparing and setting a Dynamite charge, Paris, 1890. From La Science Illustree

Cartridge from Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Cartridge packed with Dynamite made at the factory. From The Illustrated London News, 16 April 1884

Workers at Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Top: Mixing house, with women rubbing Dynamite. Bottom: Woman filling cartridges with Dynamite using a filling machine

Survivors of the explosion of the Atom bomb at Hiroshima, Japan, 1945. Beds occupied by casualties suffering the effects of radiation

150-megaton thermonuclear explosion, Bikini Atoll, 1 March 1954.The unexpected spread of fallout from the test led to awareness of, and research into, radioactive pollution. Courtesy UNO

Hiroshima, Japan, after the dropping of the atom bomb in August 1945. On 6 August 1945, a United States Air Force B-29 bomber

British firefighters damping down a bombed church, World War II, June 1940. Two firefighters use a hose to spray water onto smouldering roof timbers

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