Zeppelin Kommt! Children play a Zeppelin raid on London. Holding his bomb in the gondola is a doll of the airship's inventor, Count Zeppelin. The other children, playing the English, cower, and the British fleet — folded paper boats — remains in port. Prewar postcards celebrated the imposing airships and the excitement they generated with the same expression, 'Zeppelin Kommt!'. Postcard by P.O. Engelhard (P.O.E.). The message on the reverse is dated May 28, 1915.
P.O.E.? EnglandLondonZeppelin Kommt!Reverse:Message dated May 28, 1915Stamped: Geprüft und zu befördern (Approved and forwarded) 9 Komp. Bay. L.I.N. 5
"The first raid by Zeppelins in which bombs were dropped on British soil occurred on the night of January 19-20, 1915, when two airships bombed Sheringham, Snettisham, King's Lynn, and Yarmouth. Four people were killed and sixteen injured, and during the next six months only six small raids were recorded. These did little damage. Then in the summer of that year three raids were made on London, and considerable damage was inflicted."
Zeppelins had been used in the sieges of the Belgian fortresses of Liège in August 1914 and Antwerp in October, and against French cities near the Franco-German border. To forestall an attack on Britain, the British had struck the Zeppelin sheds at Cuxhaven on December 25, 1914, causing little damage.
The Zeppelin Fighters by Arch Whitehouse, page 67, copyright © 1966 by Arch Whitehouse, publisher: New English Library, publication date: 1978
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