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First Zeppelin raid in Great Britain
In 1914 Paul Behnke, the assistant chief of staff of the German Navy, proposed starting a campaign to bomb major cities in England using lighter than air craft. Although bombing raids by various air units had been attempted on an ad hoc basis, this would be an actual planned campaign of operation. The operation was approved on 7 January 1915, and started two weeks later.
The first successful raid occurred on 19 December. Successful was a strained term, the bombers planned to bomb the Gothic Works and the switching yards in Norwich - an example of the idealized strategic mission of the raids (later propaganda had the actual target to be Humberside and the mission to be basically terror related). The mission actually ended up bombing Yarmouth - and causing little strategic damage but spreading terror among the population.
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