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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
Production number Class Tactical numbering First flight Remarks Fate Image LZ 26: N: Z XII 14 December 1914 Z XII made 11 attacks in northern France and at the eastern front, dropping 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) of bombs; by the summer of 1915 Z 12 had dropped around 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) of bombs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line between the stations at Malkina and Białystok.
April 15–16 (overnight) – The German Navy Zeppelins L 5, L 6, and L 7 – the latter carrying Peter Strasser, the commander of the German Naval Airship Division, as an observer – bomb England. Although they meet little resistance other than rifle fire, their bombs inflict little damage.
Seydlitz (cruiser): 14,000 ton modified Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, selected while under construction for conversion to an aircraft carrier, never completed; Siegburg: Ensdorf-class (Type 352) minesweeper; Siegen: Vegesack-class (Type 321) minesweeper, commissioned 1960 to 1963; Siegfried: 3,700 ton Siegfried-class coastal defense ship ...
The Ar 197 had its origin in the requirement for a fighter capable of operating from the planned (but never completed) German aircraft carriers Graf Zeppelin and Peter Strasser. The Ar 68H had been the first Arado aircraft to have a fully enclosed cockpit, and was selected as a base design for the Arado Ar 197.