The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German prisoners, just captured, hurrying past Susan Wood, in fear of the fire of their own artillery north of the Somme, which could see them from an observation balloon as they topped the hill. The smoke is from Howitzer ammunition set on fire by the German gunners before retiring.
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
FOUR SMALL PIECES OF RUBBERIZED GERMAN OBSERVATION BALLOON FABRIC. EACH IS MARKED IN INDELIBLE PENCIL "SOUVENIR LA GUERRE PIECE OF GERMAN OBSERVATION BALLOON BROUGHT DOWN IN OUR LINES MARCH 12TH 1918
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
View from HMAS Yarra of the observation balloon attached to her fellow destroyer HMAS Torrens. Just visible is the basket suspended from the balloon; it carried the observers who looked for shadows t
1918-08. A BRITISH OBSERVATION BALLOON FALLING IN FLAMES AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY GERMAN AIRMEN, NEAR VILLERS BRETONNEUX. THE PARACHUTE OF THE OBSERVER CAN BE SEEN TO THE RIGHT OF THE BALLOON (DONATED
CANEA (HANIA), CRETE. 1945-06-13. SMOKE RISES DURING THE DEMOLITION OF GERMAN AMMUNITION DUMPS, SEEN FROM THE HILL ABOVE MALEME AIRPORT.
