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The air raid protective services. Ever on the alert is the firewatcher, who mounts to a rooftop at the first alarm. He is responsible for detecting incendiary bombs, and is trained in the methods of fighting them

The air raid protective services. Ever on the alert is the firewatcher...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Fort Benning. Loading planes. Axis, beware! Bombardiers in training at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, 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

Two bombs tumble from a Vietnamese Air Force A-1E Skyraider over a burning [Viet] Cong hideout near Cantho, South Viet Nam

Two bombs tumble from a Vietnamese Air Force A-1E Skyraider over a bur...

Photograph credited to United States Air Force. No. 94736 USAF. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

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

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

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

[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") for the United States government. Submarine vessel, transverse section]

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

Cross section through "plunging boat" showing "chambers for submarine bombs." "Plate the second." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Scaled "one inch to a foot." Published in: The tradition of technology : ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in a dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the Unite...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Royal Air Force ground crew attaches bombs to lend-lease Mohawk fighter. These planes carry six bombs in addition to their six machine-guns. Pilots call the Mohawk the "best answer to the Jap's air power"

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Royal Air Force g...

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

Neghazi (vicinity), Libya. When the United Nations air forces attacked this airfield they forced the Nazis to abandon much equiment and ammunition. In the foreground are two heavy bombs which will never be used against our forces. Note the sleds which were used to move them around the airfield

Neghazi (vicinity), Libya. When the United Nations air forces attacked...

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

Bombs away B-17 - Public domain drawing

Bombs away B-17 - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a World War II bombardier, stripped to the waist, sitting at the turret of an airplane bomber during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).

Don't buy bombs when you buy bread!

Don't buy bombs when you buy bread!

Possibly a call for boycotting Wonder Bread. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

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

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

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

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

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

This will be an internal explosion / Keppler.

This will be an internal explosion / Keppler.

Print shows the child king Alfonso XIII as a wooden puppet slumped over on the "Throne of Spain" with a clergyman standing next to him, and on the walls to the right are portrait paintings of "Charles V, Ferdin... More

Uneasy Turks / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Uneasy Turks / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows two turkeys, one dressed as a Turk standing among smoking bombs and pumpkins, beneath clouds that rain axes, bombs, vegetables, pies, and rifles upon them. Illus. in: Puck, v. 64, no. 1655 (... More

U.S. Air Force bombs Tripoli. U.S. Army bombers made their first raid on Tripoli recently and returned with this unusal series of pictures showing the results of the raid. Their objective was the Spanish mole at upper left and they were not aiming at ships in the harbor. This photo first in the series was taken at the start of the raid

U.S. Air Force bombs Tripoli. U.S. Army bombers made their first raid ...

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

Pearl Harbor bombing. Drydock bound. The USS West Virginia, sunk at her berth by Japanese torpedoes and bombs during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, was raised sufficiently to enable her to be towed to drydock. She is shown here being maneuvered by tugs, preliminary to the start of repairs

Pearl Harbor bombing. Drydock bound. The USS West Virginia, sunk at he...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of all machines for this factory's production of war essentials is rapidly taking place. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destro...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy planes wrecked by Japanese bombs and bullets during the air attacks on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The plane was an OS2U, an Observation Scout built by Vought-Sikorsky

Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy planes...

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

Pearl Harbor bombing. Hangar fire. Japanese bombs wrecked and fired this hangar at the U.S. naval air station, Pearl Harbor, in addition to causing extensive damage to planes on the apron and runways, several of which may be seen in the foreground

Pearl Harbor bombing. Hangar fire. Japanese bombs wrecked and fired th...

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

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito airdrome during a daylight raid which damaged machine shops and other installations. In the foreground a train of bombs may be seen dropping from the bay of a United States plane

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito air...

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

"Cloverleaf clusters" is the official title for these packages of 105 mm. artillery shells. Delivery lines are speedy at the large Midwest loading plant where they are made. Fourteen 2,000-pound bombs have been removed from a truck and placed in a freight car in fourteen minutes--and four 4,000-pound "block busters" have been moved from truck to freight car in fifteen minutes. Ravenna ordnance plant

"Cloverleaf clusters" is the official title for these packages of 105 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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."

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

Wir dulden keine Anarchie! / Siegm. v. Suchodolski.

Wir dulden keine Anarchie! / Siegm. v. Suchodolski.

Poster shows a soldier(?) standing in front of a woman and her children; in bottom left hand corner is a bloody hand holding a bomb. Text: We won't tolerate anarchy! We'll protect women and children. Forms par... 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

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

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

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

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

Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Mason. First words of title not recorded on shelflist card

Inspector Eagan & bombs - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Inspector Eagan & bombs - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Owen Eagan (1957-1920), a bomb expert in the New York City Fire Department's Bureau of Combustibles. He is holding a bomb recovered from an attempted anarchist bombing of St. Patrick's Cathedra... More

Bombs hurtle toward a Nazi highway bridge. With their rail and shipping facilities almost completely disrupted, the Germans were forced to resort to motor transport. All roads and bridges in central Italy became targets for Allied aerial assaults

Bombs hurtle toward a Nazi highway bridge. With their rail and shippin...

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

Salvo of 600-pound bombs falling from formation of B-10 bombers in recent bombing practice by the 19th Bombardment Group, General Headquarters, Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps

Salvo of 600-pound bombs falling from formation of B-10 bombers in rec...

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

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS West Virginia aflame. Disregarding the dangerous possibilities of explosions, United States 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-blackened sky

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS West Virginia aflame. Disregarding the dang...

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

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fort Benning. Bomber planes. An American bombardier in training at Fort Benning, Georgia makes accurate hits with practice bombs that will later be exchanged for the real "eggs for war."

Fort Benning. Bomber planes. An American bombardier in training at For...

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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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B-29 Super Fortress bombs. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

B-29 Super Fortress bombs. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public d...

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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

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

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Training Building, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Training Building, South of Interstate 8...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-W Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Training Building, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Bomb Training Building, South of Interstate 8...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-W Building/structure dates: 1943 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

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

Civilian defense. Extremely valuable in battling incendiary bombs is the stirrup pump operated by three, or in cases of emergency, two men. The volunteer worker closest to the camera is pumping water from the bucket on the reef, while the man barely visible in the center replenishes the water supply from another bucket. The third volunteer, holding the nozzle, which may be adjusted to provide either a spray or a steady stream of water, is spraying magnesium incendiary bomb and the area around it. New improved pumps are being produced in American factories

Civilian defense. Extremely valuable in battling incendiary bombs is t...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for making bomb dies. The owner of a small factory and his wife inspect blue prints of the addition they need to accomodate their war production, on orders. Fifty, instead of seven men, will man the new shop. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Founded in 1900, this small Midwest machine shop is busy today with defense work. Note overhead power-driven belts, which, though obsolete, are still producing full speed ahead. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Founded in 190...

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

Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these funnels on a distribution line in a large Midwest loading plant. TNT, used almost exclusively in shells, looks like a good grade of maple sugar. It is believed that soon the United States will use only TNT in bombs also. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these fun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, 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...

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A train of six bombs from United States Army Air forces planes drops on the base of Mandang on the north coast of New Guinea held by the Japanese. During this raid more than thirty-eight tons of bombs were dropped on the airdrome and other vital objectives

A train of six bombs from United States Army Air forces planes drops o...

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

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. Pumps, cocks, water chamber, and anchor for "plunging boat"]

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

"Plate the 3d." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Scaled "one inch to a foot."

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

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