Well said Sam, and a salute to your grandfather, and Herr B I think the Zeppelins actually improved Great Yarmouth
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Well, I was focussing on the timeframe Sept 1939-45.
That Zeppelins had bombed London in WWI, was new to me. Did they return back to safety?
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Most didn't, I think over half were lost of the 125 deployed, I think they were mostly successful in night raids, but even then searchlights and that could pick them out for the fighters with incendiary ammo and flak.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppeli..._bombing_raids
The last Zeppelin shot down on British soil came down not that far from here brought down by fighters from the aerodrome that used to be down the road. The dead were buried in Theberton churchyard, and this little memorial is in the church itself:
