Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (APB) UNT93

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (APB) UNT93DHM1813APB. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The

landed with the first wave at Utah beach

Having already made one diving attack into the force of Luftwaffe He111 bombers approaching London with their fighter escort

On 29th January 1942

The Charge of the 15th Light Dragoons at Emsdorf by David Rowlands

The mission had been a surprise

bombers and balloons alike

1909 of the original uniform plate published by Spooner 1830-40 from the series of 70 plates entitled Military & Naval Costumes by L Mansion and L Eschauzier

Flt Lt Eric Kemp

800-kg) bomb or numbers of smaller bombs

James G Struthers

near Newport - a rusting hulk

and was capable of making takeoffs and landings in fairly high seas