Zeppelins Over the Midlands Powis Mick
Zeppelins Over the Midlands Powis Mick On 31st January 1916 nine Zeppelin airships of the Imperial German Navy bombed the Midlands, opening a strategic bombing campaign designed to cripple British…
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Zeppelins Over the Midlands Powis Mick
On 31st January 1916 nine Zeppelin airships of the Imperial German Navy bombed the Midlands, opening a strategic bombing campaign designed to cripple British war production. The main target was Liverpool but none of the Zeppelins reached it. It ended in total failure.
While the press produced many human interest stories and atrocity propaganda, wartime censorship prohibited publication of any information that could be useful to the Germans, including the towns hit and names of the victims. On foggy Monday night several major Midlands towns were bombed and 70 people killed, 35 in the Black Country between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 15 in Burton on Trent, 10 in Loughborough, 5 in Derby, 3 in Scunthorpe and 2 in Ilkeston.A lot is known about the military aspects of the raids but much less is known about what happened on the ground. Through intensive research the author has
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