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Germany's first ever aerial blitz on UK: Zeppelin raids began a hundred years ago
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 18 January 2015
| Ollie Gillman
Posted on 01/20/2015 11:46:46 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Germany launched its first ever aerial blitz on Britain exactly 100 years ago tonight when two Zeppelins were sent on a bombing mission which killed four.
On the nights of January 19 and 20, 1915, two of the airships were heading for Humberside but were blown further down the east coast by strong gusts.
Heralding a new era of warfare, their first two targets - King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk - were chosen purely by the direction of the wind.
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To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:11:09 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
To: Berlin_Freeper
The start of "city-busting," that ultimately led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No way could the Germans claim they were after military targets, since the Zeppelins couldn't overcome the wind. They were willing to drop their bombs wherever the wind blew them.
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:18:43 PM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
(Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
To: SkyDancer
LOL,
With a reporter live on the scene......
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:26:40 PM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
It took some courage to pilot a hydrogen filled gas bag (No, not you, Nanci Pelosi) over the U.K. during WW I.
Oh, the huge manatees.
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:31:15 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Berlin_Freeper
Aerial bombardment... clever. But the new IslamoNazi invasion is far more effective...
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:37:13 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Didn't JP Jones say "I have not yet begun to play this bass?"
To: Berlin_Freeper
Didn't JP Jones say "I have not yet begun to play this bass?"
To: Larry Lucido
To: Berlin_Freeper
Its not a balloon!!! Its an AIRSHIP! Get outside!
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posted on
01/20/2015 1:11:13 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Berlin_Freeper
pics or it didn’t happen
lol
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posted on
01/20/2015 1:13:22 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Conan the Librarian
Dang it! That should be IT’s not its.
I always get those two backwards.
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posted on
01/20/2015 1:15:22 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Da Coyote
IIRC, one RAF pilot destroyed a Zeppelin by flying above it & dropping a single Mills grenade.
The hydrogen fireball nearly got him but he survived.
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posted on
01/20/2015 1:48:40 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
Watched a British Show about WWI Zeppelins. According to the show, Germans were banned from eating sausages during the war because they needed the cow intestines to make the Zeppelins. They showed how the intestines were laid out, overlapping ends, and when they dried, they were strong and seamless. Here's an article about it:
Germans Banned From Eating Sausages
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posted on
01/20/2015 1:55:52 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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