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Photograph 020736 Second World War, 1939-1945An explosion caused by a bomb dropped from an enemy raider during an air attack on Tobruk.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Smoke rising from the explosion of a bomb dropped by an enemy plane during a late afternoon raid on Tobruk harbour.
An explosion caused by a bomb dropped from an enemy raider during an air attack on Tobruk.

Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. c. August 1941. A general view of bomb damaged buildings. The smoke from the harbour is from HMS Ladybird set on fire by an enemy bomb. (Donor Sergeant Maxwell)

ENEMY BOMBS FALL HARMLESSLY INTO THE WATER AS THE AUSTRALIANS SEND UP A SMOKE SCREEN OVER TOBRUK HARBOUR. IT HAS BEEN LEARNED FROM ENEMY PRISONERS THAT ALMOST EVERY PLANE TAKING PART IN RAIDS ON TOBRU

A peaceful view of Tobruk harbour taken late in the afternoon. Trees in the foreground have been denuded of leaves by bomb explosions.

Three Junkers Ju 88 aluminium aircraft skin fragments which are heavily torn, punctured and misshapen from the explosion which destroyed the aircraft. Each is approximately the same size and each disp

Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. 10 April 1941. The hole in the ceiling of Ward 9 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital, made by an aerial bomb dropped during the first deliberate enemy raid on the hospit
