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
"In the air, Germany retained the ascendancy. . . . For the British public, it was German air activity that still created alarm. On January 31 [1916], nine Zeppelins flew across the North Sea to Britain: 389 bombs were dropped in the Midlands. One of the Zeppelins crashed into the sea on its return, and all sixteen of its crewmen were killed."
The First World War, a Complete History by Martin Gilbert, page 230, copyright © 1994 by Martin Gilbert, publisher: Henry Holt and Company, publication date: 1994
1916-01-31, 1916, January, Zeppelin, Zeppelin raid, England, United Kingdom
