OK I'm a couple of days late and I'm aware that the Zeppelin raids were arguably not the first aerial bombing (i.e. the Italian War of Independence, the First Balkan War and the Mexican Revolution) however I believe that these raids were the true beginning of aerial bombardment as a part of war.
On the morning of January 19th 1915 two Zeppelin airships of the Imperial German Navy, the L3 and L4, took off from Fuhlsbüttel in Germany. Both carried eight explosive and 25 incendiary bombs, together with fuel for approximately thirty hours of flight. The operation had bee authorised by Kaiser Wilhelm II to attack military and industrial buildings on Humberside in England. A third airship, L6, had bee assigned to attack targets in the Thames Estuary but not in London, but was forced to turn back by engine problems.
Bad weather caused L3 and L4 to abort the attack on Hunberside and instead they switched to the coastal towns of Norfolk. Both airships crossed the coast of East Anglia a little north of Great Yarmouth with L3 heading south east towards Great Yarmouth and L4 north west towards Kings Lynn.
L3 found Great Yarmouth and dropped its bombs, killing Samuel Smith and Martha Taylor, the first British civilians to be killed by aerial bombardment.
L4 dropped the first bomb to fall on Britain soil at Sheringham. Two fatalities (Percy Goate and Alice Gazely) were caused at Kings Lynn.
On the morning of January 19th 1915 two Zeppelin airships of the Imperial German Navy, the L3 and L4, took off from Fuhlsbüttel in Germany. Both carried eight explosive and 25 incendiary bombs, together with fuel for approximately thirty hours of flight. The operation had bee authorised by Kaiser Wilhelm II to attack military and industrial buildings on Humberside in England. A third airship, L6, had bee assigned to attack targets in the Thames Estuary but not in London, but was forced to turn back by engine problems.
Bad weather caused L3 and L4 to abort the attack on Hunberside and instead they switched to the coastal towns of Norfolk. Both airships crossed the coast of East Anglia a little north of Great Yarmouth with L3 heading south east towards Great Yarmouth and L4 north west towards Kings Lynn.
L3 found Great Yarmouth and dropped its bombs, killing Samuel Smith and Martha Taylor, the first British civilians to be killed by aerial bombardment.
L4 dropped the first bomb to fall on Britain soil at Sheringham. Two fatalities (Percy Goate and Alice Gazely) were caused at Kings Lynn.
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