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The First Air Raid: Great Yarmouth by Bob Wyatt
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This item by Bob Wyatt, the Book Review Editor for Stand To! from 1987 to 2017, appeared in Stand To! No. 27 1989. On the night of 19 January 1915 ... three Zeppelins set off on the first air raid by airships over Britain. Engine failure caused one to turn back but the other two reached England. They had intended to attack the North-East coast but…
Death From the Skies. The Zeppelin Raids over Norfolk 19 January 1915 by R J Wyatt
53 pages. Soft Cover. Twelve of illustrations, maps, references, appendices. Card covers. £6.95. Gliddon Books, Norwich 1990. ISBN 0 947893 17 2. This interesting and inexpensive little book is by none other than our reviewer, Bob Wyatt. Despite its cover, it is a serious and thoroughly researched account of the Zeppelin raids on Great Yarmouth…
The Original Long Distance Bombers of the First World War
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Most of us are familiar with the RAF bombing campaigns of the Second World War, but few are aware that such cities as Cologne, Frankfurt, Mannheim and Stuttgart had already been targeted two decades earlier during the First World War. The reward for building an organisation like The Western Front Association on a foundation of reputable research i…