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36 photos tagged bombers, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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• aviation
• firstworldwar
• wwi
• worldwarone
• bomber
• militaryaviation
• bombing
• aircraft
• bombs
• airplane
• france
• war
• worldwari
• ww1
• greatwar
• thegreatwar
• 19141918
• wwii
• worldwarii
• propaganda
• great
• photojournalism
• handleypage
• warphotography

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• Provincial Archives of Alberta 15 photos
• National Library of Scotland 6 photos
• The Library of Congress 4 photos
• SDASM Archives 4 photos
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos
• Florida Memory 2 photos
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo

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Short Stirling bomber

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

• TVL1970 said:

  The relatively short wingspan, shape of the wings and single vertical stabilizer reveal this to actually be an image of a Short Stirling bomber. See three-view of the Short Stirling here for comparison: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Short_Stirlin... Compare to the three-view of the Handley Page Halifax bomber: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Handley_Page_...

• Provincial Archives of Alberta said:

  Thank you very much for this information. The original photo had the mistaken information written on the back, but judging by the illustrations that you have provided I believe that you are correct. I will correct the description; thanks again!

218 E. 67th (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  This is the home of one of the Italian anarchist bombers who plotted to blow up St. Patrick's Cathedra on March 2, 1915: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E6DB1238E633A...

• ccozic said:

  My family actually lived at this address, 4th floor, in the late 1950s until I was about 3 or 4. I have a photo of me on the rooftop. Across the street was the WNEW Channel 5 TV studios. Kinda wild that the Library of Congress has this photo of my first home!

• Art Siegel said:

  

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It

from The Library of Congress

• Steve Crane said:

  I'm quite amazed by the colour in these old photos.

• julia dee said:

  More than "color" per se, it's the dynamic range of transparency film. Digital can't come close at present.

• marzitxu. said:

  q demais!!!