Friday, January 19, 2007
This Day in History
On this day in 1915, England suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppelins, the L.3 and the L.4, drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England. Because America had a monopoly on helium gas, which is not flammable but has less lift than highly flammable hydrogen, the Germans had to use the latter; and later in the war had to fly very high and at night in order to avoid British aircraft seeking to shoot them down with incendiary bullets in the plane's machine guns.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:06 AM 
