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106 photos and 1 illustration tagged bombs, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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• aviation
• bomb
• aerialbomb
• aircraft
• aerialbombs
• airplane
• militaryaviation
• firstworldwar
• wwi
• worldwarone
• sdasm
• aeronautics
• bombing
• bomber
• bombers
• ww2
• boeing
• hornet
• secondworldwar
• wwii
• weapons
• flightdeck
• worldwarii
• ordnance

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• SDASM Archives 72 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 14 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 4 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 2 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 2 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Hartlepool 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• Australian War Memorial collection 1 photo / illustration

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The Shell Department at the Elswick Works

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Faulty ones under the bench?!

Grand Slam bombs awaiting delivery

from North East Museums

• 1 older comment, and then…
• optimal chicken said:

  I was curious about the number of heavy nuts and bolts at its end. I've found this on Wiki; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)

• Yvan Demers said:

  
  Your wonderful capture was seen in Black & White Photos
  Add 1 – Comment 2

• chuck2669 said:

  I believe that the explosive used was poured and due to the high speed that the bomb achieved during its descent those exposed nuts not only secured the detonating mechanism but provided solid attachment points to keep the tail surface attached...

• optimal chicken said:

  chuck2669 Yes I was wondering - that's a lot of nuts to keep a tail on..

• chuck2669 said:

  Also one of the Grand Slam bombs was used as a static display at RAF Scampton's Main Gate until about 1958 when upon trying to lift it due to a road widening projectit was discovered to be too heavy for the small crane being used and upon closer examination discovered to be still full of Torpex. It was collected by the British military and detonated at the experimental test range at Shoeburyness and heard over a 10 mile radius. - abbr. from the Australian Armourers Association. www.gunnies.pac.com.au/gallery/grand_slam.htm

Bombardment Group; 14th Air Force; 16th Squadron; P-40s

from SDASM Archives

• René Francillon said:

  This is not a P-40, it is a North American P-51B or P-51. RJF