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King George studies trench bombs - Public domain portrait photograph

King George studies trench bombs - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows British officers explaining trench mortar to King George V and Edward, Prince of Wales at the Trench Warfare School, Helfaut, France during World War I, July 7, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons pr... More

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia American soldiers make good grenade throwers

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aircraft. Naval. The Consolidated "Mariner" (PBM-3) serves the Navy as a patrol bomber or transport. It is an all-metal flying boat with high gull wings. It has a speed of over 200 miles per hour, a range of over 3,000 miles, a ceiling of over 15,000 feet and a load capacity of 20,000 pounds. The crew of nine men is armed with 50-caliber machine guns and bombs

Aircraft. Naval. The Consolidated "Mariner" (PBM-3) serves the Navy as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the demolition and clearance crews, whose work is essential to efficient air raid protection. They must keep the vital roads and alleys clear so that other workers can get to the trouble spots. They are trained in the efficient use of power shovels and other time-saving tools

The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the de...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air forces plane on territory in the Aleutians held by the Japanese. Our fighting forces harass the enemy at this important outpost daily

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air forces plane on ter...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Officer candidates during a practice road march carrying full packs disperse singly to side of road while being "attacked" by flour bombs

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Office...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") for the United States government. Vessel sighting mechanism details]

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Jeff... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Practice Bomb Storehouse, Yorktown Boulevard northeast of Saratoga Boulevard, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Practice Bomb Storehouse, Yorktown Boul...

Significance: This building was associated with the training function of the Naval Air Station on Ford Island during World War II. The practice bombs stored here were used to train air crews in aerial bombing.... More

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the intersection of Moffet and Kamakahi Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the i...

Significance: Building 4027 at Hickam Air Force Base is significant under National Register Criterion A as a component of the build-up to World War II. Building 4027 is an example of a Practice Bomb Loading st... More

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the intersection of Moffet and Kamakahi Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the i...

Significance: Building 4027 at Hickam Air Force Base is significant under National Register Criterion A as a component of the build-up to World War II. Building 4027 is an example of a Practice Bomb Loading st... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bombsight & Torpedo Storehouse & Workshop, Southwest of Gannet Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bombsight & Torpedo Storehouse & Worksh...

Significance: This facility is significant for its association with the weapons that contributed to the United States success in World War II. This building provided shop space for bombsights and storage space... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

Palestine disturbances 1936. Jaffa Gate police-station windows being screened against insertions of bombs

Palestine disturbances 1936. Jaffa Gate police-station windows being s...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Hindu, India, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Track damage in the Ostiense railroad yards as shown in a reconnaissance photo. In the background a monastery stands intact, untouched by bombs directed against military installations

Track damage in the Ostiense railroad yards as shown in a reconnaissan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bombs lie on an Allied airfield ready to be loaded into Royal Air Force Liberators. The British bombers of the Mediterranian Allied Air Forces worked with American Liberators to strangle German supply lines feeding Nazi troops on the Anzio, Cassino and Eighth Army fronts. French airmen also participated in the operation

Bombs lie on an Allied airfield ready to be loaded into Royal Air Forc...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A Nazi bridge is put out of commission. Black smoke engulfs a railway bridge on the line from Florence to Rome after it was straddled by bombs. For two months Allied bombers pounded German railroad installations forcing the enemy to depend increasingly upon cargo vessels and motor vehicles for transportation

A Nazi bridge is put out of commission. Black smoke engulfs a railway ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consolidated for long-range patrol and transport missions. It is an all-metal, high-wing flying boat powered by four Pratt and Whitney engines of 1,200 horsepower each. Its speed is over 200 miles per hour, its range over 3,000 miles, its service ceiling approximately 20,000 feet, its load capacity 30,000 pounds. It carries a crew of ten men armed with 50-caliber machine guns and bombs

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consol...

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph related to US navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Somewhere in Eastern India. Royal Air Force men are putting bombs on legs of a "Mohawk." These excellent fighters carry six bombs as well as six machine guns

Somewhere in Eastern India. Royal Air Force men are putting bombs on l...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Shell loading. These 2,000-pound bombs will carry death and destruction to the Axis from a huge shell-loading plant in the Midwest. The arsenal makes even deadlier gifts for Hitler--4,000-pound "block busters" and shells of still greater size. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. These 2,000-pound bombs will carry death an...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blitz Den Helder in daylight. "Ventura" aircraft of Royal Air Force bomber command, escorted by fighters, attacked the docks at Den Helder by daylight on February 12, 1943. Their previous visit to the Dutch port was January 23. Action photo taken during the attack shows many bombs bursting across the southern entrance to the naval basin--four of them in the inner haven (Naval). Hits were scored on the torpedo boat establishment and the torpedo workshops east of the entrance. Smoke arises from bombs which burst in a line across the railway in the southwest part of the harbor

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blitz Den Helder in daylight. "Vent...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air Forces plane on territory in the Aleutians held by the Japanese. Our fighting forces harass the enemy at this important outpost daily

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air Forces plane on ter...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Officer candidates during a practice road march carrying full packs disperse singly to side of road while being "attacked" by flour bombs

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Office...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas cartridges; repair kit to mend bullet holes in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flash light with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blast Ijuiden steelworks by day. "Ventura" aircraft of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, carried out a daylight attack on the Royal Dutch blast furnaces and steelworks at Ijumuiden, Holland, on February 13, 1943. Action photo taken during the attack shows: Bombs from the Venturas falling across the target area. Hits are seen on the stockyard, unloading wharf, coke oven plant near the mechanical workshops, water tower, and among the foundations for a blast furnace

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blast Ijuiden steelworks by day. "Ve...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Hight & MacMurphy Foundry, 636 Eleventh Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Hight & MacMurphy Foundry, 636 Eleventh Street, Augusta, Richmond Coun...

Significance: This foundry and machine works was the third such operation to be established on the second level of the Augusta Canal. It gradually grew in size under several different proprietors until George ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dispensary & Casualty Station, Bishop Point, northwest of intersection of Vickers Avenue & Fort Kamehameha Road, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dispensary & Casualty Station, Bishop P...

Significance: This facility is a distinctive type of building that was constructed only during the World War II period, in direct response to the December 7, 1941 attack. Buildings with this form were used for... More

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Site Storage, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Site Storage, South of Interstate 80, We...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-AA Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

Wendover Air Force Base, Inert Bomb Warehouse, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Inert Bomb Warehouse, South of Interstate 80,...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-CF Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") for the United States government. Vessel under sail and anchored]

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...

"Plate the seventh." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Public domain scan - drawing of sailing ship, sea, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bombs? and airplanes] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Bombs? and airplanes] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ranger battalions train with commando troops. Troops of the ranger battalions, America's special service soldiers, are now in training somewhere in the United Kingdom. They have been attached to combined operations, commanded by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Training under commando instructors and an opposed landing operation with British Naval instructors. Live ammunitionand trench mortor bombs are used to create a realistic effect and prepare the men for combat conditions

Ranger battalions train with commando troops. Troops of the ranger bat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in a small Midwest factory is handling dies for use in producing incendiary bombs. The company, which formerly made doll's furniture, is now operating under subcontract for war production Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right

Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and tor...

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Plane which was used to drop aerial gas bombs during a gas demonstration

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Plane which was used to...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Officer candidates during a practice road march carrying full packs disperse singly to side of road while being "attacked" by flour bombs

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Office...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman holding a flag labeled "Woman Suffrage" standing behind an angry hag labeled "Militant Lawlessness" with a Medusa-like face, wide-eyed and open mouth, rushing toward the viewer, carry... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Along First Avenue to west of & along Ford Island Way, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Alon...

Significance: The Hospital Point neighborhood was built in association with the development of the naval hospital at Pearl Harbor and the adjacent Radio Station, the navy's first radio installation in Pearl Har... More

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the intersection of Moffet and Kamakahi Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the i...

Significance: Building 4027 at Hickam Air Force Base is significant under National Register Criterion A as a component of the build-up to World War II. Building 4027 is an example of a Practice Bomb Loading st... More

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the intersection of Moffet and Kamakahi Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Practice Bomb Loading Shed, Bomb Storage Road near the i...

Significance: Building 4027 at Hickam Air Force Base is significant under National Register Criterion A as a component of the build-up to World War II. Building 4027 is an example of a Practice Bomb Loading st... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the demolition and clearance crews, whose work is essential to efficient air raid protection. They must keep the vital roads and alleys clear so that other workers can get to the trouble spots. They are trained in the efficient use of power shovels and other time-saving tools

The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the de...

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Singapore's A.R.P. These air raid wardens are dousing an incendiary bomb in Singapore's central city square (Raffles Place). It is only however part of a regular weekly mass demonstration to make Singaporean's bomb conscious and informed.

Singapore's A.R.P. These air raid wardens are dousing an incendiary bo...

Photograph shows three men spraying water on lit material as crowd watches. British Official photo: K-1258. No. BO-682. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke, and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available, it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A large e...

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Nurse training. Nurses learn the care of patients suffering from burns. Here, the nurse paints a boy's burned back with sulfathiasol. The treatment of burns is of much public interest in these days of warfare on civilian populations with incendiary bombs

Nurse training. Nurses learn the care of patients suffering from burns...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical transformers in one of the TVA plants in the Muscle Shoals area, producing war materials by gas synthesis. These plants make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the manufacture of high explosive shells, elemental phosphorus for incendiary bombs and shells, phosphoric acid and highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizers

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical tra...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A section of a TVA plant in the Muscle Shoals area in which phosphorus is produced in its elemental form. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke, and silica together in electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available, it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A section...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. USS West Virginia a flame. Disregarding the dangerous possibilities of explosions, U.S. sailors man their boats at the side of the burning battleship, USS West Virginia, to better fight the flames started by Japanese torpedoes and bombs. Note the national colors flying against the smoke-blackend sky

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS West Virginia a flame. Disregarding the dang...

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Axis, beware! Bombardiers in training at Fort Benning, Gerogia use practice bombs to learn the routine of loading a light bombing plane

Axis, beware! Bombardiers in training at Fort Benning, Gerogia use pra...

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Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Men of the ordnance, supply and maintenance company of the 25th service group taking 2000 pound bombs out of the revetment area

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Men of the ordnance, ...

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Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") for the United States government. Cock cavity and wheel details for "plunging boat"]

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...

"Plate the sixth." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nixon's bombs kill people - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Nixon's bombs kill people - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

"IPC, Indochina Peace Campaign, 72" penned on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman holding a flag labeled "Woman Suffrage" standing behind an angry hag labeled "Militant Lawlessness" with a Medusa-like face, wide-eyed and open mouth, rushing toward the viewer, carry... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dispensary & Casualty Station, Bishop Point, northwest of intersection of Vickers Avenue & Fort Kamehameha Road, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dispensary & Casualty Station, Bishop P...

Significance: This facility is a distinctive type of building that was constructed only during the World War II period, in direct response to the December 7, 1941 attack. Buildings with this form were used for... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

[Man with bombs? at airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Man with bombs? at airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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Panay hero receives Navy Cross. Washington, D.C., July 1. Fireman first class John L. Hodge, who is recuperating at Naval Hospital here, was today decorated with the Navy Cross for the bravery he displayed during the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay by Japanese bombs last year. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison is pictured pinning the award on the Bluejacket. It was hodge who carried Jim Marshall, staff writer for Collier's injured in the bombing, from the scene of the sinking vessel to Wuhu, China, a distance of about 17 miles, 7/1/38

Panay hero receives Navy Cross. Washington, D.C., July 1. Fireman firs...

A man sitting in a wheel chair next to a man in a sailor's uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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