Air war. From Libya to Hiroshima 1911-1945

The place reserved to photography in the Malipiero defense tower holds an exhibition of 24 pictures representing the use of air weapons in the first half of 20th Century. The exhibition goes back over the landmarks of the incessant spreading of air raid as military tactic from land in order to conquest Libya to the first and rudimentary bomb drops in the first line and over towns during the First World War, from bombardments of Ethiopian villages to those of Spanish towns during the Civil War 1936-1939, from the destruction of European cities during the Second World War to the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima  on 6th August 1945.  The pictures draw our attention to the general character of the war in the 20th Century and to the growing and planned involvement of the population in the conflict.

On exhibition the pictures preserved in the Photographic Archive of the Museum together with other ones made courteously available by important Italian magazines such as RID Rivista Italiana Difesa (“Safeguard Italian Magazine”) and Storia Militare (“Military History”).