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A Coast Defence - an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917 Art.IWMART1263

A Coast Defence - an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917 Art....

A Coast Defence - an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917 image: Searchlights scan the night sky over the coast at an anti-aircraft installation. One of the two guns is firing, with the flash from the ... More

An October Night Raid on London, 1917- Seen from the Royal College of Science Art.IWMART1071

An October Night Raid on London, 1917- Seen from the Royal College of ...

An October Night Raid on London, 1917- Seen from the Royal College of Science image: A view of a night-time raid over London showing anti-aircraft search-lights in the sky. The dome of the Brompton Oratory lie... More

C.R.W. Nevinson - Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane, 1917 - Art.IWMART517

C.R.W. Nevinson - Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane, 1917 - Art.IWMART5...

The painting is mentioned in correspondence in September 1917 as being re-worked prior to its presentation to the Imperial War Museum: it may possibly have been the painting 'Taube Pursued by Commander Samson' ... More

Daniel J. Sheehan, RFC 1917 during World War I

Daniel J. Sheehan, RFC 1917 during World War I

Image of Daniel Joseph Sheehan, born in Tralee, Ireland 14 November 1894, was a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Flying Corps, the eldest of three sons of Captain D. D. Sheehan MP. for Mid-Cork, Ireland, who ... More

James Mc Cuddens 18 Thvictory

James Mc Cuddens 18 Thvictory

RAF ace James McCudden's 18th victory: a crashed German reconnaissance aircraft.

King's Cross Anti-aircraft Gun in Action Art.IWMART320

King's Cross Anti-aircraft Gun in Action Art.IWMART320

King's Cross Anti-aircraft Gun in Action image: A scene depicting an anti-aircraft gun firing up into the night sky. The gun is manned by young naval personnel in uniform, overseen by an older bearded officer s... More

Night Bombers Getting Off from Trezennes Aerodrome, 1917 Art.IWMART4028

Night Bombers Getting Off from Trezennes Aerodrome, 1917 Art.IWMART402...

Night Bombers Getting Off from Trezennes Aerodrome, 1917 image: A night scene at an aerodrome in northern France. An FE2b biplane night bomber is taking off on the right with a single serviceman crouching on th... More

Parachuting- the Destruction of a Kite Balloon by a German Aeroplane, Doiran Front, 1917 Art.IWMART795

Parachuting- the Destruction of a Kite Balloon by a German Aeroplane, ...

Parachuting- the Destruction of a Kite Balloon by a German Aeroplane, Doiran Front, 1917 image: a British kite balloon is on fire in the upper left of the composition, having been fired on by a German biplane, ... More

Seaplane crash in Portsmouth 1917. Q27566

Seaplane crash in Portsmouth 1917. Q27566

Photography During a fog at Portsmouth a small seaplane crashed at full speed into a wireless mast, and embedded her nose in the girder work, 1917. (Aircraft flown by Flight. Commander E. A. de Ville).

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Q7783

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Q7783

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Battles of Ypres 1917. A Sopwith Camel biplane with its nose buried in the ground after being forced down. At Clapham Junction, in front of Zillebeke. 26th September 1917.

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Q7784

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Q7784

The Battle of Passchendaele, July- November 1917 Battles of Ypres 1917. A Sopwith Camel biplane with its nose buried in the ground after being forced down. At Clapham Junction, in front of Zillebeke, 26th September 1917.

The Bombing of Bissheghem Aerodrome- the night of 20th October 1917 Art.IWMART3993

The Bombing of Bissheghem Aerodrome- the night of 20th October 1917 Ar...

The Bombing of Bissheghem Aerodrome- the night of 20th October 1917 image: A night scene illuminated by fire, showing the immediate aftermath of an air raid on an aerodrome. In the centre left a grounded aircra... More

The Last Fight of Captain Ball, Vc, Dso and 2 Bars, Mc, 7th May 1917 Art.IWMART1488

The Last Fight of Captain Ball, Vc, Dso and 2 Bars, Mc, 7th May 1917 A...

The Last Fight of Captain Ball, Vc, Dso and 2 Bars, Mc, 7th May 1917 image: An aerial view of a dogfight between one British and three German aircraft. To the left one plane plummets streaming a trail of grey ... More

The Official Visits To the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q11890

The Official Visits To the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q11890

The Official Visits To the Western Front, 1914-1918 King George V and Edward, the Prince of Wales, inspecting a British plane which had crashed, having had its controls shot away. No. 4 Squadron Aerodrome near ... More

A Daylight Raid on London, 7th July 1917- Seen from the roof of the Royal College of Science with the Brompton Oratory in the foreground Art.IWMART1070

A Daylight Raid on London, 7th July 1917- Seen from the roof of the Ro...

A Daylight Raid on London, 7th July 1917- Seen from the roof of the Royal College of Science with the Brompton Oratory in the foreground image: A view from West to East across to the centre of London from Sout... More

A.W. F.K.8 (Cockpit area) during World War I

A.W. F.K.8 (Cockpit area) during World War I

Side view of cockpit area of early production Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 (First World War British Biplane aircraft)

Albert Ball SE5a cockpit during World War I

Albert Ball SE5a cockpit during World War I

English WWI flying ace Captain Albert Ball in the cockpit of his SE5a fighter.

Gotha raid on London 1917 during World War I

Gotha raid on London 1917 during World War I

A formation of 21 Gotha G.IV heavy bombers during the second daylight raid on London on 7 July 1917 by Kagohl 3, the Englandgeschwader (England Squadron).

Robey Peters Three-Seater 1 during World War I

Robey Peters Three-Seater 1 during World War I

The Robey Peters Three-Seater fighter aircraft Public domain photograph of experimental aircraft, prototype, aviation design and development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description