Tag: Zeppelin

Podcast

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.

Podcast

19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn

19th January 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Bomb, Britain, Civilians, England, First World War, Germany, Zeppelin

On the 19^th January 1915, two German Zeppelin airships known as L3 and L4 dropped bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid.