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German G-Type Bombers of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Charleston, SC: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-935881-26-1. Hippler, Thomas (2013). Bombing the People: Giulio Douhet and the Foundations of Air-Power Strategy, 1884–1939. Cambridge Military Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03794-6.
British recruiting poster from 1915 at German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918, by the Publicity Department of the Central Recruiting Depot (restored by Adam Cuerden) SM U-21 sinking the Linda Blanche , by Willy Stöwer
An Aviatik B.I, typical of the primitive two-seaters used by the Carrier Pigeon Squadron in late 1914.. Major Wilhelm Siegert was an aviation pioneer and an influential advocate of strategic bombing, who immediately approached the Oberste Heeresleitung (Supreme Army Command or OHL) proposing the formation of a bombing aeroplane force to attack Britain from Calais; the idea was accepted and on ...
The targets of these raids were industrial and port facilities and government buildings, but few of the bombs hit military targets, most falling on private property and killing civilians. Although the German strategic bombing campaign against Britain was the most extensive of the war, it was largely ineffective, in terms of actual damage done.
The memorial in Poplar Recreation Ground Detail of the inscription Souvenir of the raid, on display at the RAF Museum in Hendon. The Poplar Recreation Ground Memorial is a memorial to 18 children killed at Upper North Street School in Poplar on 13 June 1917, by the first daylight bombing attack on London by fixed-wing aircraft.
World War I strategic bombing (7 P) Pages in category "Aerial operations and battles of World War I" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
(and) the first soldier was killed on British soil by enemy action in the Great War 1914–1918". The raid caused a great scandal in Britain, became a rallying cry against Germany for its attack upon civilians and against the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.
Brooks on the Western Front, 1917. Ernest Brooks (23 February 1876 – 1957) was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War. He was the first official photographer to be appointed by the British military, and produced several thousand images between 1915 and 1918, more than a tenth of all British official photographs taken during the war.