The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
AN OBSERVATION BALLOON WHICH HAD BEEN ALOFT FOR THREE DAYS, LYING ON THE GROUND AFTER IT HAD BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY A GERMAN AIRCRAFT.
Damaged wicker and wood observation balloon basket. Crushed on hitting the ground, the basket is from a British balloon shot down on fire by a German aircraft near Ypres, Belgium, in January 1918. T
France. c. 1917. British Army soldiers moving past a French Army observation balloon which ascended within 400 yards of the advancing German Army. The balloon withstood attack for an hour before being
Wreckage of an aircraft, with wing markings B4, which had been brought down by a German aircraft over Bapaume Ridge.
ALSACE, FORMER FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER. AN OBSERVATION BALLOON BROUGHT TO EARTH BY A FALL OF SNOW.
Western Desert, Egypt. 3 September 1942. In the darkness the light of wreckage from a German raider aircraft burning on the ground after it had been shot down in an attack on an RAF airfield clearly s
The pad used for winching a barrage balloon aloft over the 1st Australian Task Force (ATF) base. The Field Operational Research Section (FORS) had attached radio equipment to the balloon so that, when
