On January 2nd 1942 Malta was bombed using the PC 18000RS Panther, a rocket assisted bomb.
RE BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD FACES UNKNOWN BOMB
The small slip of paper delivered to Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal early this morning was covered in hastily scribbled notes. It was also marked ‘Priority’ –...
I was coming home from dropping my daughter off in Milwaukee,Wisconsin and Milford,Illinois on state route 1 is on my way home and I had never photograph our local buzz bomb before.Milford is a little farm town of several thousand that is about 35 miles north of my house. So I stopped at a...
This is at Covington, Indiana's V.F.W. post, a small town of a few thousand 12miles east of my house. It is in the front yard of there Veterans of Foreign War post building. I was there for a funeral dinner. The big bomb is just like one I posted a few years ago,that was at Osh Kosh,Wisconsin...
The dams bomb ....
It was a cylinder weighing 9,250lb including 6,600 of RDX explosive, it had a lenght of 5 feet and was 4 feet 8 inches in diameter. It had three hydrostatic pistols primed to detonate at 30 feet, it also had a ninety second time fuse, automaticaly tripped when bomb release...
number 36m In 1915, a grenade developed by William Mills, a Birmingham engineer, began to be used by British troops. The bomb had a central spring-loaded firing-pin and and spring-loaded lever locked by a pin. Once the Mills Bomb was in the air, the lever flew up and released the striker, which...
The "Butterfly Bomb" or SD2 was a small weapon of about 2Kg in weight which were packed in a container holding 23 in total which resembled a 50Kg bomb. When dropped, the container split open spilling its contents of butterfly bombs. The bombs, when packed had an outer thin metal cover...
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