The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The second stage of the barrage in the battle of Hamel, showing how the flares died out after the first shock of the attack on 3.10 a.m. had passed and the smoke hid the shell bursts. 'The smoke barrage was really the most fascinating spectacle of the whole attack. The dim light before dawn enlarged and distorted the smoke clouds to monstrous shapes, which were lit up feebly, and thereby the more terribly, by the flashes of the bursts. Here and there a brilliant rocket soared up from the doomed lines . . warning of the supposed usual gas-strafe'.
Dawn on 4 July 1918, showing the Australian barrage falling on the village of Hamel, during the attack by the Australian and American troops. The blurred appearance is due to the smoke which hung over
Pforzheim, Germany. 1945-03-23. An aerial photograph of a concentrated RAF bombing attack on this communication junction and precision parts production centre. The grey-black smoke is from the burning
The opening of the barrage of the battle of Hamel. As soon as the barrage opened at 3.10 a.m. the enemy sent up brilliantly coloured flares, of which only the white ones show in the photograph. For a
A photograph taken on a rainy day from a position near the Observatory on the Bray-Corbie Road, about a mile from Bray. Vaire-sous-Corbie is on the right and Vaux-sur-Somme on the left. Between these
The third stage of the barrage in the battle of Hamel, showing the heavy concentration of fire on the right and German flares going up in the centre. 'Hamel was really a big battle reduced to a small
Burma. C. 1944-12. A direct hit bursts in a cloud of dust and smoke right in the middle of the tracks at Ye-U railway yards in Burma during an attack by RAF Liberator aircraft of Eastern Air Command.
