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19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

19th January 2022
Tagged as: Air Raid, Aircraft, Airship, Bomb, Britain, England, First World War, Flight, Germany, Norfolk, War, Zeppelin

The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20^th Century.

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19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

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