Explosion Collection

World War II
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Art: War: World War II

Torpedo Trial
December 1947: The former German minelaying submarine U-234 is blown up by experimental torpedoes fired from the United States Atlantic Fleet, forty miles northeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Atom Bomb Tests
25th July 1946: Aerial view of a mushroom cloud rising from the underwater atom bomb test Baker. Image taken from an aF airplane. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bikini Bomb
7th August 1946: A mushroom cloud rises from the waters of Bikini Lagoon during the United States first series of underwater atomic tests

Atomic Atoll
An atom bomb being exploded under water at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Mushroom Cloud
July 1946: A mushroom cloud forms after the initial Atomic Bomb test explosion off the coast of Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Two Clowns and a Stick of Dynamite

Boy Lighting a Firecracker

USS Maine From 1899
Image of the USS Maine from 1899. The USS Maine was sunk in 1898 and was a major cause for the Spanish American War

H Bomb Cloud
1st April 1954: One hundred miles of sky covered by smoke and radioactivity from the first H-Bomb explosion (US) at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Hydro-Electric Power
1st December 1951: Explosives are used to remove the barrier at the entrance to the tunnel which is used to divert the river at Marketai as part of a scheme to increase the electricity available

Huge Explosion on Earth

A Bomb Test
circa 1950: Two United States Marine Infantrymen are silhouetted against the sky during an early morning A bomb blast in Nevada. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Supervolcano erupting, illustration
Illustration of an ultra-plinian volcanic eruption seen from an altitude of around 40 km. These eruptions form ash clouds that can reach tens of kilometres into the sky

Balloon Torpedo
1878: The Balloon Torpedo, or Aerial Battery, a British invention of 1878; consisting of a balloon carrying explosives suspended from its underside which could be released when above target at

Eruption forming cloud above rocky landscape

Illustration of bank robber making a safe explode

Illustration of the attack on Pearl Harbour by Japanese bombers during World War II, and inset of soldier looking through binoculars

Illustration of Sopwith Camel, 1st World War biplane

Balloon Explosion
circa 1912: A balloon explodes with great ferocity in America. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Arras Grenades
May 1917: British grenade explosions during the Battle of Arras on the Siegfried Line. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Ship Explodes
circa 1916: A ship explodes in the middle of the sea during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fireworks exploding in sky at night

Malakoff Tower
The Capture of Malakoff Tower in Sebastopol during the Crimean War, by Gustav Dore, 6th September 1855. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nuclear Testing
Operation Hurricane, Britains first atomic weapons detonation, takes place off Trimouille Island, in the Monte Bello Islands, 3rd October 1952. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

French Advance
French troops advancing under fire during World War I, France, circa 1916. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Crimean War
Fighting in Sebastopol during the Crimean war, circa 1855. Detail of Franz Roubauds 1904 painting The Siege of Sevastopol (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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