Historical Military Explosions

A collection of blurred and dramatic black and white images depicting various military explosions and battle scenes from different eras, emphasizing chaos and action in war.

Explosion from a trigged landmine in France. Dated 1914

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Landing exercises I Infantry Brigade 7-December Division in Tjilinting. Blurred photo of the terrain, explosions?. May 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Explosion from a trigged landmine in France. Dated 1914

Quaere at Levico. Main exercise of the storm battalion.

German World war one soldiers emerge under fire, from a bombed out crater position

Europe: March, 1944. An Allied forces parachute drop against Nazi forces in Europe.

Deadly: Flame-throwing Bren carriers burn up "enemy" positions at a river crossing during tactical lessons at a training school in India. December 30, 1944.

Main exercise of the storm course in Levico, explosions of hand grenades and mines.

Main exercise of the storm course in Levico, explosions of hand grenades and mines.

An enemy supply train was wrecked by light bombers of the South African Air Force and long range fighters of the R.A.F. during an attack south of Sidi Barrani yesterday. Direct hits were scored on an ammunition wagon and the locomotive. The ammunition wagon caught fire and the blaze could be seen forty miles away. The engine was completely destroyed. Many other wagons were severely damaged. Dense column of smoke rises from the blazing engine. All these remarkable pictures were taken from one of our long range fighters. October 10, 1942.

Flame Throwers School -- In North Carolina, men of the Eighty Second Air Borne Division learn the fine points of Flame Throwing.These Ft., Bragg students graduate with ferocious long range valleys of flame. June 14, 1949.

Quaere at Levico. Main exercise of the storm battalion.

Shooting down a Russian bomber near Smolensk Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

A striking picture of the "Churchill" tank with the flame-thrower in action.Armoured Fighting Vehicles demonstration at Bovington, Dorset, a demonstration by armoured fighting vehicles of obstacle crossing was given at the Royal Armoured corps centre at Bovington, Dorset. July 02, 1951. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Uganda. Entebbe. View toward town from hill on the west. 1936, Uganda, Entebbe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Fire; Brigade equipment park 2nd inf. Brig. Poerwakarta. Poerwakarta. In the night of 2 on 3 July, terrorist gangs fired a storage location of the brigade equipment park, whereby O.M. a batch of rejected clothing, a number of car tires and five vessels were lost. Soldiers engaged in extinguishing and storage work .. July 3, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Purwakarta

Toledo, August 1936. Spanish Civil War. National troops fighting in the Toledo sector.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A Stoker Petty Officer teaches two seamen how to sweep flames from the surface of a blazing oil fuel tank by means of a water spray at the Naval Fire Fighting School, Devonport. A large crowd of men can be seen in the background.

Storm course.Flammarfer. .

Second World War. Front pictures. Ukraine. Tank of the German Wehrmacht in a cloud of dust on a unpaved highway

Two bombs tumble from a Vietnamese Air Force A-1E Skyraider over a burning Viet Cong hideout near Cantho, South Vietnam. Published 1967

Photograph of French Soldiers in the Trenches as a battle continues. Dated 1915

The Dutch army is practicing in La Courtine. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.

The British Occupation of Java An Indian soldier in a village outside Surabaya (Soerabaja) prepares to fire on any Indonesian nationalist snipers driven from the burning buildings.

Smoke towers from blasted installations as demolition teams "scorch the earth" in the final phase of the evacuation. In the distance landing craft ferry evacuees and equipment from the beaches to waiting ships. February 18, 1955. (Photo by United Press).

a column of American tanks and motorised vehicles hit by German a anti-aircraft fire.

Army Roadmarkers -- A Centurion tank crawls over the rubble against another mudhut. Men of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade stood by ready to take part in the demolition of the village of Gaynaeim. It was part of the operation to clear a road, in which British troops ***** be safe from sniping, from the Suex Garrison to the water filtration plant. December 11, 1951.

Photograph of American soldiers advancing on a German bunker position, during World War One. Dated 1918

Madrid, around 1932. An infantry tank launching a smoke screen to hide its movements.

The Battle of the Somme, July - November 1916 Battle of Albert. British artillery bombarding the German trenches previous to the attack on La Boisselle, 1st July 1916.

Chinese Troops Assault City of Tengchung - Chinese soldiers move forward to scale a wall at the city of Tengchung, captured in their advance toward Burma from the Salween River in western China. Smoke is from exploding grenades thrown over the wall. Tengchung lies north of the Burma Road. October 4, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A Liquid Fire Attack by Germany in World War I

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916

Segovia, August 1906. Shooting exercises on balloons with 15 centimeter pieces Green System.

World War I,1918. Field Artillery Cannon In France

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A kampong in flames. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Verdun, France: June, 1916 French infantry facing a curtain of fire in front of Fort Vaux, Verdun.

Anefo photo collection. General curls. February 22, 1946

Positions of the 9th Australian Division under enemy shell fire late in the afternoon of 1st November, 1942. November 1, 1942.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return from Peeteran to Patjet 3-5 Infantry Regiment. Surabays sector. If Van Patjet is received from machine gunfire, the commander of artillery support requires a marine battery. July 23, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Bombs Bombing - Tracer Bullets ETC - War file. August 20, 1952. (Photo by United Press Photo).

World War II: Nazi (German) demonstration of how French defensive Maginot Line forts were destroyed by attack with flame-throwers and grenades. In some places the Maginot defences held for some time.

Photograph of International harvest trucks at Iwo Jima after navy barrage rockets hit. Dated 1945

Private G.J. Thompson practising camouflage. July 08, 1940.

ARBING PARK WALHAVEN AREA WALHAVEN.

The Campaign in Sicily 1943 The Drive for Messina 10 July - 17 August 1943: Chandelier flares light up an Allied airfield during a night raid by Axis bombers. Bombs are bursting and a column of smoke rises into the night sky from a fire.

World War Two: German aircraft crashed in France

Illustration showing Egyptian army crossing into the Sinai from the West Bank of the Nile. October (Yom Kippur) War 1973

Africa, libya, airport in the desert on the border with chad, 1930 1940.

Tanks In Training -- The trend of modern warfare is towards complete mechanisation and the tank is a vital item of Army equipment. The present tank bears little resemblance to its famous predecessors in the last war and is fast, well armoured, well armed and easily ***** fighting that can travel over rough, hilly country at an astonishing speed. Pictures taken at a tank exercise in South Eastern England. There is nothing a tank will not attempt. Waves of tanks seen climbing on extremely precipitous slope in the general advance firing as they go. January 10, 1955. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Waves of Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF fly over Target Area, Concordia Vega Oil Refinery, Ploesti, Romania, after dropping its Bomb Loads, U.S. Air Force photo, May 31, 1944

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Five-day advance by Mountains Patjet, Sendi, SOEMMENT GONDO, Djurang, KoEli, Lember, Brantas, Djoenggo, Batoe. Patjet Batoe. Firefight, unblocking with plume. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

War album 106, picture 32488.

Yank Bombers Blast, Burn Jap Lanes On Engebi Airstrip -- Seven of the 14 Twin-engined bombers, caught on the Engebi Island Airfield January 30 by dive bombers and fighter planes from a U.S. carrier, are blasted and burning. The other enemy bombers also were destroyed. The American attack was to prevent the Japs from Reinforcing their bases in the Kwajalein Atoll during the Marshall Island invasion. February 16, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

World War I, France, June 15, 1915. the Capture of Braun Kopf, in Alsace. French guns fire on remaining German forces.

Flying Bomb Site (French Military) - French Military. September 18, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Invaders Of Manchuria Watch Their Burning Barracks -- Soldiers Of the Invading Japanese Army, Carrying their flag, watching the burning of their warracks near Mukden following a Bloggy battle with the embattled Chinese. This followed the Captured of Mukden by the Japs. August 10, 1931. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

The Battle of the Somme, July - November 1916 Battle of Albert. British artillery bombarding the German trenches previous to the attack on La Boisselle, 1st July 1916.

Anefo photo collection. German paratroopers landing Netherlands at Moerdijk?. 1940

Bomb Deflectors: New Ward Against Air Attack - A 1200-Ib. bomb crashing through a representation of a 6-storey building. It crashed through to the 4th floor. The advantages of bomb deflectors - round balls of concrete, over the use of flat concrete slabs, were tried out in a demonstration at Hounslow (Middlesex) to-day. The experiment showed that the concrete balls deflected a 1200 Ib bomb clear of the shelter below while it crashed through a slab left, 5 1/2in. Thick the same volume of concret

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC occupied Bandoeng area. Soldiers run into a Kampong, where a number of houses are on fire. 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Members of 1ST Battalion, 21st Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, assault a moch-up North Korean compound during the joint South Korean/US training Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '82. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '82 Base: Geon Cha Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. Salonika. As our patrols enter villages on the extremities of the line the enemy usually shell - however, many prisoners are often taken in these sudden raids.. 1914-1918}

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. A petrol tanker and trailer on fire on the road between Homs and Misurata, Libya, after an attack by Bristol Blenheims interdicting enemy fuel supplies in support of Operation CRUSADER.

Anefo photo collection. Clock casts at Van Bergen in Heiligerlee. November 11, 1949. Groningen (province), Heiligerlee

Vintage photograph. G.I.'s behind smoke screen aimed M-1 Rifles firing at Japanese Soldiers

Ruins Of Former German Base In Corsica -- German soldiers fleeing before advancing French troops left behind them these smoking ruins of an ammunition dump near Teghime on the Island of Corsica. The French island was liberated by French Army regulars from North Africa and Corsican patriots. January 10, 1943. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Pictures).

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