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Strasser did not live to see the end of the war. On 5 August 1918, [3] during a night raid against Boston, Norwich, and the Humber Estuary, Strasser's L 70 met a British reconnaissance D.H.4. [4] Pilot Major Egbert Cadbury and Gunner Major Robert Leckie shot down the L 70 just north of Wells-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast. None of the 23 men ...
Graf Zeppelin is launched, 8 December 1938.. After 1933, the Kriegsmarine began to examine the possibility of building an aircraft carrier. [1] Wilhelm Hadeler had been Assistant to the Professor of Naval Construction at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) for nine years when he was appointed to draft preliminary designs for an aircraft carrier in ...
German aircraft carrier Peter Strasser This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 00:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Started 1938, cancelled 1939. Proposed name was Peter Strasser. Flugzeugträger C German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Flugzeugträger D German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Foch French Navy: R99 Clemenceau: Fleet carrier CATOBAR: 1963–2000
The first planned aircraft carrier came about in 1918, late in World War I; the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) had previously experimented with seaplanes operated from ships such as the armored cruiser Friedrich Carl. [4]
She is the world ' s first aircraft carrier with an unobstructed flight deck from stem to stern. [ 24 ] [ 80 ] September 15–16 (overnight) – Flying a Sopwith Camel , Frank Broome of the Royal Air Force 's No. 151 Squadron shoots down a giant German Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI bomber over Beugny , France, one of the only two R.VI bombers lost to ...
Führer der Luftschiffe (Admiral 2nd Class) Peter Strasser, Commander of naval Airships (1915–1918) Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel and then Colonel, Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen , Chief of Field Air Services (1915–1916), Air Service Chief of Staff (1916–1919)
The commander of the Naval Airship Section was Korvettenkapitän Peter Strasser, and they flew from bases at Nordholz and Hage in north-west Germany and Tondern (then part of Schleswig; the town became part of Denmark in 1920). Sortied on 31 May L.9: KptzS August Stelling (Army Officer, on the inactive list) L.14: KptLt Alois Böcker