:00:09. > :00:11.Britain's airspace is one of the most tightly defended in the world.
:00:12. > :00:17.You can't fly anywhere up here without someone knowing abott it.
:00:18. > :00:24.Every square inch of our sky is monitored 24/7.
:00:25. > :00:27.But a hundred years ago, an attack on a Norfolk coastal town
:00:28. > :00:32.A Zeppelin, an airship the size of an ocean liner,
:00:33. > :00:37.slipped in undetected and unleashed carnage on the people living below.
:00:38. > :00:41.It was the start of a terrifying new campaign aimed at killing innocent
:00:42. > :00:45.men, women and children and forcing an early end to the war.
:00:46. > :00:54.By re`visiting the bomb sitds from down on the ground and from up
:00:55. > :00:57.here in the air, I'm going to find out how close the Germans came to
:00:58. > :01:14.The story of the impact of Zeppelin attacks on the Home Front whll take
:01:15. > :01:16.us from Norfolk to London, from Hertfordshire to Essex.
:01:17. > :01:18.And it all started in the seaside town of
:01:19. > :01:26.For hundreds of years the Royal Navy had protected the British
:01:27. > :01:29.against attack from the sea, but they were powerless agahnst this
:01:30. > :01:37.On the night of January 19th 1915 people reported hearing an derie,
:01:38. > :01:39.throbbing sound above them, followed shortly afterwards by the
:01:40. > :01:47.Bombs began falling on the town and on the docks area but it was
:01:48. > :01:50.in the streets below me now, the St Peter's Plain area of town
:01:51. > :01:54.that the full horror of aerial warfare was unleashed on thd British
:01:55. > :02:03.Barely a building here escaped damage and when the smoke cleared
:02:04. > :02:05.two people lay dead, 72`year`old spinster Martha Taylor
:02:06. > :02:13.Blown to pieces in the streets where they lived, they were Britahn's
:02:14. > :02:22.I suppose the only thing we could compare it to today is
:02:23. > :02:29.a terrorist bomb suddenly going off without any warning.
:02:30. > :02:31.There was no military advantage to it.
:02:32. > :02:34.It was all about instilling terror and really that's what these aerial
:02:35. > :02:36.bombardments did, the Zeppelins would come out of the dark, you
:02:37. > :02:40.couldn't see them and it was totally random ` you didn't know if you were
:02:41. > :02:43.running towards danger or away from it, you couldn't know where
:02:44. > :02:46.the next bomb was going to be dropped or where it was going to
:02:47. > :02:50.explode and I think that's what is so terrifying and must have been
:02:51. > :02:58.So it's just a matter of luck whether you live or die
:02:59. > :03:04.I mean, Samuel Smith, I'm sure he must have been just drawn ott by
:03:05. > :03:07.the sound of the propellers, so he must have heard something different
:03:08. > :03:12.and just stepped out of his workshop to be hit by the shrapnel.
:03:13. > :03:15.Martha Taylor was just coming back from the shops.
:03:16. > :03:18.Back in the 1970s, people living here were intdrviewed
:03:19. > :03:21.about their experiences that night and even half a century
:03:22. > :03:28.Miss Taylor lived at number two Drakes Buildings and
:03:29. > :03:32.when they came away, my mother said Miss Taylor walked a bit too slow.
:03:33. > :03:36.She hurried on in front and I can remember this door being flung open
:03:37. > :03:40.and the window was coming in, my mother being thrown onto the couch,
:03:41. > :03:43.we had an old`fashioned couch and Miss Taylor was unfortunate she got
:03:44. > :03:46.killed on the road so if they'd kept together my mother
:03:47. > :03:53.It happened just on the corner about a hundred yards away from hdre.
:03:54. > :03:55.Plenty of damage around herd and plenty of spectators
:03:56. > :03:58.the next morning, sightseers, I don't know about troops there might
:03:59. > :04:02.have been one or two, the soldiers, the odd one or two because some
:04:03. > :04:06.The man over there, Mr Ellis, he had his head split open,
:04:07. > :04:10.Yes, I remember him standing there with a bandaged head.
:04:11. > :04:14.Great Yarmouth became headlhne news, but today many people living in the
:04:15. > :04:17.streets where the attack happened have no idea about the night their
:04:18. > :04:31.It's Kate Argyle's role to pass the story onto a new generation who
:04:32. > :04:43.are used to seeing aircraft in the sky all the time.
:04:44. > :04:51.Look at the state of that building. Do you think anybody could survive
:04:52. > :04:53.in that building? You are looking at the man that was in the house at the
:04:54. > :04:54.time. Now, it's easy for us to forget that
:04:55. > :04:58.in 1915 many people had nevdr even seen an aeroplane, so to see a
:04:59. > :05:01.Zeppelin suddenly appear in the sky would have been like somethhng out
:05:02. > :05:04.of science fiction and these things were massive ` over 500 feet
:05:05. > :05:09.long and more than 50 feet wide. That's longer
:05:10. > :05:18.and wider than this entire street. The aim of the Zeppelins was clear,
:05:19. > :05:21.by bombing civilians the Germans hoped to create mass panic,
:05:22. > :05:24.break morale at home and force the British government into
:05:25. > :05:28.abandoning the war in the trenches. But as revealed in those accounts
:05:29. > :05:31.from the 1970s that wasn't puite There wasn't the sort of chaos and
:05:32. > :05:38.panic that the Germans had wanted. So no hysteria broke out,
:05:39. > :05:41.people weren't rushing left right and centre, there was just this
:05:42. > :05:45.shock and then... And then getting on with it,
:05:46. > :05:48.there was not mass hysteria, the Germans had failed in that
:05:49. > :05:52.intent and in fact I think the people reacted very stoically, they
:05:53. > :05:57.got on with the job of clearing up. That British sense of,
:05:58. > :06:01."We're not being phased by this " That people reacted so calmly seems
:06:02. > :06:04.incredible, it must have been a tremendous shock that something
:06:05. > :06:07.so large could appear over their The first flight across the channel
:06:08. > :06:13.by Louis Bleriot had only t`ken place some six years before, but now
:06:14. > :06:17.the Germans were able to come across But it was a matter
:06:18. > :06:27.of luck where the bombs landed. The attack on Yarmouth had
:06:28. > :06:31.been intended for the Humber. As a pilot, I can understand how
:06:32. > :06:34.difficult it must have been back then getting to Britain, let alone
:06:35. > :06:40.navigating to a specific location. For the Zeppelin crews, at night,
:06:41. > :06:43.strong winds and rain and poor visibility meant that they
:06:44. > :06:48.often didn't know where thex were. It was a brave act to come all
:06:49. > :06:52.the way over the North Sea to try and find their targets
:06:53. > :06:55.and return home again, it w`s one Very often they weren't aware what
:06:56. > :07:01.they were bombing, often they would describe bombing fortified places
:07:02. > :07:06.but in reality perhaps they had just hit villages that happened to show
:07:07. > :07:11.a few twinkling lights. Despite the problems,
:07:12. > :07:14.this was an aerial campaign the German High Command was
:07:15. > :07:16.determined to press home. As the people of Great Yarmouth were
:07:17. > :07:19.counting their dead and injtred a second Zeppelin was already
:07:20. > :07:23.bombing Kings Lynn. Would this attack cause
:07:24. > :07:33.the panic the Germans wanted? When that bomb dropped,
:07:34. > :07:36.we all ran into the street. It was a proper calamity, everybody
:07:37. > :07:39.came out the houses, running across people's houses, the bed of my
:07:40. > :07:42.sister in law was cut to ribbons and my father got us off just in time or
:07:43. > :07:50.that would have been our lot. Reg Goat's father got all
:07:51. > :07:58.his children quickly downst`irs My father then insisted that we all
:07:59. > :08:02.hide under the dining room table, he had
:08:03. > :08:04.the idea that we were being shelled from the river ` no`one thotght
:08:05. > :08:07.anything about a raid from above. The attack on Kings Lynn caused even
:08:08. > :08:10.more damage than that on Yarmouth and when it was over
:08:11. > :08:13.a further two people lay de`d But once again there were
:08:14. > :08:21.no scenes of panic. As the two Zeppelins turned
:08:22. > :08:23.for home, they left The damage might not have been that
:08:24. > :08:27.great, but Now Britons were not only dxing
:08:28. > :08:31.on the battlefields of Flanders, This was Britain's first Blhtz,
:08:32. > :08:38.the time when the front`line moved from distant
:08:39. > :08:41.battlefields to our doorsteps. One of those killed in Kings Lynn,
:08:42. > :08:45.Alice Maud Gazeley, had only lost her husband on the western front two
:08:46. > :08:49.months before, now she too was dead. Warfare, and Britain,
:08:50. > :08:57.would never be the same agahn. This newspaper is full of b`ttle
:08:58. > :09:01.reports from the front line. The casualty list the explohts
:09:02. > :09:06.of local people but the air`raid is The deaths of women and children
:09:07. > :09:11.in their own homes is being reported and this has crossdd
:09:12. > :09:14.a new line, it is shocking. The papers of the time,
:09:15. > :09:17.held here at the Eastern Daily Press office in Norwich, give
:09:18. > :09:19.a fascinating insight into peoples' And there's a growing sense
:09:20. > :09:29.of outrage that's apparent here. This for example is from thd
:09:30. > :09:32.coroner's inquest on the victims of the raid at Great Yarmouth `nd the
:09:33. > :09:36.coroner says it's a terrible thing, an unprotected and unfortified
:09:37. > :09:39.place like Great Yarmouth should be subject to these wilful and wicked
:09:40. > :09:42.attacks from the enemy I dare say all of you would wish to record a
:09:43. > :09:46.verdict of 'wilful murder' in this What we have to remember here is
:09:47. > :09:56.that the war is only a few months old and it's not going
:09:57. > :10:01.very well for us. Much of the regular army has been
:10:02. > :10:03.wiped out at the Battle of Ypres, now
:10:04. > :10:06.people were dying in their homes. It's really interesting to look
:10:07. > :10:11.at the reactions here. It says that Kings Lynn reshdents
:10:12. > :10:15.as a whole displayed remarkable presence of mind after
:10:16. > :10:19.the raid there were no hystdrical scenes or harassing the milhtary
:10:20. > :10:23.and police in their duties. There's also
:10:24. > :10:31.a really interesting commercial reaction to the raids as well `
:10:32. > :10:36.there are adverts for blackout If you subscribe to the Daily News,
:10:37. > :10:44.you can get ?10,000 of Zeppelin raid insurance and they protdly
:10:45. > :10:49.proclaim that they've already paid That offer of insurance turned
:10:50. > :10:56.out to be a good idea. For the next couple of months,
:10:57. > :10:59.Zeppelins would hit towns across the east ` Southend, Ipswich and
:11:00. > :11:02.Bury St Edmonds were all attacked ` But the Germans were still no nearer
:11:03. > :11:09.to breaking the British spirit, Initially, the Kaiser banned any
:11:10. > :11:16.bombing of London and it's easy to see why ` he and
:11:17. > :11:20.the British Monarchy were rdlated, they were family, but under pressure
:11:21. > :11:23.from his commanders he relented and eventually gave approval
:11:24. > :11:25.for bombing anywhere east Four months
:11:26. > :11:33.after the initial attacks, ` Zeppelin appeared above London for
:11:34. > :11:37.the first time, but as in Norfolk, Historian Ian Castle
:11:38. > :11:46.has discovered why. I mean, the Government thought
:11:47. > :11:49.about it, but they were just really Would more people go out
:11:50. > :11:52.in the streets and risk injury to themselves
:11:53. > :11:55.if they knew a raid was comhng? Would they hinder
:11:56. > :11:56.the emergency services? Would they stop them getting to
:11:57. > :12:00.the fires and also would it affect The consensus of opinion was that
:12:01. > :12:04.perhaps it's best not to issue So as unsuspecting Londoners
:12:05. > :12:07.prepared for bed, Zeppelin LZ 38 began a trail
:12:08. > :12:13.of destruction across the chty. This house in Stoke Newington
:12:14. > :12:16.was the first ever in London Albert Lovell, the man who owned
:12:17. > :12:24.the house, dragged his family out, leapt onto his son's bicycld
:12:25. > :12:27.and pedalled off about a quarter of a mile to the nearest fire
:12:28. > :12:30.station to alert the fire brigade. They came straight back, rushed in,
:12:31. > :12:33.got the fire out really quickly, huge crowds coming out now,
:12:34. > :12:36.all the other houses are emptying, people are coming out to see what
:12:37. > :12:39.the commotion is. There have been no raids before
:12:40. > :12:41.there's never been anything Suddenly
:12:42. > :12:44.a blazing bomb is coming out of the sky and setting light to a
:12:45. > :12:47.house, it's almost science fiction. This is exactly what
:12:48. > :12:50.the raiders were trying to achieve. These bombs were designed
:12:51. > :12:53.to set London ablaze. And this was just the start `
:12:54. > :12:57.heading south more bombs were And then we get
:12:58. > :13:01.the first real tragedy It happens in Cooper Road,
:13:02. > :13:09.the house of a man called Samuel The incendiary crashed throtgh the
:13:10. > :13:13.ceiling and set fire to the bedroom He dashed in fighting the flames to
:13:14. > :13:18.get them out, he got badly burnt in the process and then later
:13:19. > :13:21.in the early hours of the morning a policeman returned to the building
:13:22. > :13:24.once it had stopped burning. He went in and he was searching
:13:25. > :13:27.and he found the body of a young three`year`old child,
:13:28. > :13:30.Elsie, who had died on her bed. The headlines now are "Baby Killers,
:13:31. > :13:35.the Germans are baby killers," and this became the name the Zeppelins
:13:36. > :13:38.were known by from that day forward. Zeppelins had flown over thd capital
:13:39. > :13:49.and in twenty minutes it had dropped three thousand pounds of bombs, 91
:13:50. > :13:55.incendiaries that had startdd forty odd fires, it had gutted buhldings
:13:56. > :13:59.and left seven people dead. Not a single searchlight had
:14:00. > :14:02.pinpointed the raider, not a single The Zeppelins had struck right
:14:03. > :14:11.at the heart of the British Empire, highlighting the total lack
:14:12. > :14:15.of defence of the capital. Riots broke out and German shops
:14:16. > :14:18.and businesses were attacked. Feelings were running
:14:19. > :14:20.so high it was eventually decided to intern thousands
:14:21. > :14:25.of Germans living in Britain. But what didn't happen was
:14:26. > :14:28.the mass panic the German High Command predicted and even some
:14:29. > :14:33.in the British government fdared. Dr Lucy Noakes has been studying
:14:34. > :14:36.the effects of bombing civilians So people aren't reacting
:14:37. > :14:40.in the way the government expects. Is this the beginning of wh`t came
:14:41. > :14:51.to be known as the Blitz spirit? Well, absolutely you could see, yes,
:14:52. > :14:54.the emergence of the Blitz Spirit, although obviously it's not called
:14:55. > :14:56.that, just starting to appear The whole aim of aerial bombardment
:14:57. > :15:00.is to cause social breakdown Society didn't collapse,
:15:01. > :15:03.industry kept on going. But where you did see an impact,
:15:04. > :15:07.I think, is on the front amongst Who were often very,
:15:08. > :15:10.very concerned about the safety of their families, who they were
:15:11. > :15:13.told, remember, they were fhghting to defend back at home, unddr fire
:15:14. > :15:17.in the cities and the towns. Newspapers do have stories
:15:18. > :15:19.of soldiers coming home to find their houses destroyed,
:15:20. > :15:24.their wives and children dead. But for many people,
:15:25. > :15:26.what the Zeppelins meant was The airships were more than twice
:15:27. > :15:33.as long as a modern day Jumbo Jet. Thousands of people took to
:15:34. > :15:39.the streets to see them. Yet because they travelled slowly,
:15:40. > :15:42.unless one was directly above you, I'm off to meet a remarkabld woman
:15:43. > :15:46.who actually remembers seeing Doris Cobban,
:15:47. > :15:54.who lives in Bedfordshire, was only five when London came under
:15:55. > 3:31:19attack from the Zeppelins. At the time she was living
3:31:20 > 3:14:35with her family in Lewisham. I remember my father coming up to
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the bedroom and he picked md up And he said, this is historx,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35you must see this. And my mother took my elder sister,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35who was two years older than I was, by the hand and we went out
3:14:36 > 3:14:35into the road. And over London I saw this long
3:14:36 > 3:14:35thing and it looked I can remember hearing guns going
3:14:36 > 3:14:35but I can remember my father saying As far as I remember it was
3:14:36 > 3:14:35cheerful, but probably the grown`ups As the Zeppelin campaign stepped up,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the death toll climbed steadily By September 1915,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the Kaiser had been persuaddd that the entire British capital was
3:14:36 > 3:14:35a legitimate target. On the night of September 8,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Germany's most successful Zdppelin commander, Kapitanleutnant Heinrich
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Mathy, was to lead the most I'm about to fly
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the route he took over London. For the first time,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35a Zeppelin penetrated From 8,500 feet
3:14:36 > 3:14:35above Euston station he released his first bombs, and then wdnt
3:14:36 > 3:14:35on to Bloomsbury and Holborn. and the numbers of dead
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and dying were rising steadhly. Passing just north of St Patl's
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Cathedral, incendiary bombs rained Down below the guns were bl`zing
3:14:36 > 3:14:35away and the searchlights were But the shells were failing
3:14:36 > 3:14:35to find their target. As Mathy looked down
3:14:36 > 3:14:35from the safety of his gondola on the fires and smoke, he could only
3:14:36 > 3:14:35imagine the carnage down below. Here in Red Lion Street a bomb fell
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in front of the Dolphin Tavdrn. A man working on a gas lamp was
3:14:36 > 3:14:35killed in the street along with two others, and the whole of the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35front of the pub was blasted in The pub clock was later recovered
3:14:36 > 3:14:35from the wreckage, its hands frozen While the clock stopped,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the bombing didn't. Across the city,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35buildings were being destroyed, But it was here,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35around Liverpool Street Station, where the Zeppelin unleashed
3:14:36 > 3:14:35its most destructive attack. Just like today, this area was
3:14:36 > 3:14:35very busy, full of people. Bombs ripped through two London
3:14:36 > 3:14:35buses, killing the driver There were scenes
3:14:36 > 3:14:35of unimaginable horror. The dead
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and dying littered the stredts. By the time the attack was over
3:14:36 > 3:14:3522 people were dead, 87 had received horrific injuries `nd once
3:14:36 > 3:14:35again the Zeppelin had escaped With towns and cities now suffering
3:14:36 > 3:14:35across the country, anger was starting to shift from the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Germans to the British government. The problem was that the best
3:14:36 > 3:14:35fighting aircraft were reserved for use on the Western Front,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and this meant that home defence It's being preserved at the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Now it's a fine,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35capable aeroplane for trainhng, But its performance was
3:14:36 > 3:14:35pretty woeful. It would take an age to get to the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35height that the Zeppelins operated at, and its machine gun
3:14:36 > 3:14:35was feeble. It was rather like trying to sink
3:14:36 > 3:14:35a battleship with a hand`drhll. Better planes were brought
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in to defend the skies with a And there were also better
3:14:36 > 3:14:35defences down on the ground. Gradually, fixed anti`aircraft guns
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and mobile ones like this wdre But these guns could be every bit
3:14:36 > 3:14:35as dangerous to the populathon During a raid,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35shell splinters would rain down on the population and death
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and injury wasn't at all uncommon. But the Zeppelins were also becoming
3:14:36 > 3:14:35more sophisticated and powerful. These are the most
3:14:36 > 3:14:35extraordinary Zeppelin relics. This is a rare example of an engine,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35but over here probably the largest piece
3:14:36 > 3:14:35of Zeppelin that survives anywhere. It's an observation car, a so`called
3:14:36 > 3:14:35cloud car, and the idea was if the Zeppelin became temporarily
3:14:36 > 3:14:35unaware of its position, an observer would be lowered in this on a cable
3:14:36 > 3:14:351.5km long below the Zeppelhn, Now just imagine that, sitting
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in here, maybe with artillery fire coming up towards you, wonddring
3:14:36 > 3:14:35if you can spot the target. Perhaps not even seeing the Zeppelin
3:14:36 > 3:14:35above. Scary stuff. But despite improved defencds,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35it was to be another year before the tide began to turn
3:14:36 > 3:14:35against the Zeppelins. At the beginning of September 1916,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35more than a dozen German airships headed for
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Britain ` their largest raid ever. Bombs fell in Nottinghamshire,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Lincolnshire and Kent. But only one airship made it through
3:14:36 > 3:14:35to the primary target ` London. When the SL11 appeared over
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the capital, it immediately came From Alexandra Palace you'd have
3:14:36 > 3:14:35been able to witness They'd never heard so much noise,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35it was two o'clock in the morning. People are getting out
3:14:36 > 3:14:35of their beds because they think And they come out
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and they can see this airship in And then as this Zeppelin moves
3:14:36 > 3:14:35across the sky, suddenly there is He makes one pass from the front
3:14:36 > 3:14:35to the rear end, nothing happens. He makes a second pass along
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the side, still nothing happens He's got one drum of ammunition
3:14:36 > 3:14:35left and he is despairing that He takes up a position
3:14:36 > 3:14:35below the rear of the airship and fires his whole drum of ammtnition
3:14:36 > 3:14:35into one spot and suddenly he sees it go pink red and that's it,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35it's all over for the Zeppelin. The Zeppelin catches fire,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the hydrogen is burning. There is no way back
3:14:36 > 3:14:35for the Zeppelin then. Eventually, when it finally crashes
3:14:36 > 3:14:35to the ground, this huge burning candle is going down
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and then people start cheering. Cheering and cheering
3:14:36 > 3:14:35like they've never cheered before. Trains start blowing their hooters,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35factories' whistles start going off. One policeman says he was unnerved
3:14:36 > 3:14:35by the cheers because they were People hated that airship and
3:14:36 > 3:14:35they wanted to see it come down The airship eventually crashed
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in rural Hertfordshire 19`year`old Leefe Robinson,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the pilot who shot down SL11, was awarded the Victoria Cross
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and became an instant celebrity Next day becomes known
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in the press as Zepp Sunday. Tens of thousands of people make
3:14:36 > 3:14:35a pilgrimage out from London, And literally The Times recorded
3:14:36 > 3:14:35it as the greatest free show People are going there to sde
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the wreckage of this Zeppelin to try And more and more people ard coming
3:14:36 > 3:14:35out for the next few days as well, a mass exodus from the city to go and
3:14:36 > 3:14:35see the end of this fearful raider. The authorities decided to bury
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the crew of the airship That enraged public feeling
3:14:36 > 3:14:35against the Germans. One woman hurled eggs
3:14:36 > 3:14:35at the coffins, for While Britain cheered
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Leefe Robinson, the German response was to go big,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the so`called Super Zeppelins. But while the raids continudd, we
3:14:36 > 3:14:35had now found their Achilles heel. Explosive,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35incendiary bullets which cotld set the hydrogen in the Zeppelins alight
3:14:36 > 3:14:35proved their undoing. Barely two weeks later, one of these
3:14:36 > 3:14:35new Super Zeppelins was brought down in the village of Little Wigborough,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35south of Colchester in Essex. The nose
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and other parts were perfect. But all the canvas got burned
3:14:36 > 3:14:35off and just left a bit of That's aluminium,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35that's for lightness. Passed the gate here, 21 of them
3:14:36 > 3:14:35all walked past and that was a big There was a special constable met
3:14:36 > 3:14:35them up the next village and he took And he was going to try and take
3:14:36 > 3:14:35them to Mersea, to the military But he took them to Peldham Post
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Office and that's where they The crew of a second Zeppelin
3:14:36 > 3:14:35weren't so lucky. They all died when it crashed
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in flames near Billericay in Essex. Again,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35thousands of people turned out to look at the wreckage, including
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Leefe Robinson and the Secretary of the State for War,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Lloyd George. By the end of the month,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Germany's leading Zeppelin captain, Heinrich Mathy,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35had also been killed and fotr German It was the beginning of the end
3:14:36 > 3:14:35for the Baby Killers. But now people were much more likely
3:14:36 > 3:14:35to see Zeppelins not in the skies, but as these fragments,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35bits of shot down Zeppelin. There was a lively trade
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in these and some money was raised But the Zeppelin menace,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the threat they represented, had been transformed
3:14:36 > 3:14:35into mere curios and trinkets. During their brief but deadly
3:14:36 > 3:14:35dominance, the Zeppelin airships had killed more than 500 people and
3:14:36 > 3:14:35injured more than 1,000 in places But the last ever attempt to bomb
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Britain by a Zeppelin was here over the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Norfolk coast and it's fitting that On August 5 1918, aircraft of
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the newly`formed RAF scrambled from Great Yarmouth as five Zeppelins
3:14:36 > 3:14:35approached the Norfolk coast. Soon afterwards, one of the airships
3:14:36 > 3:14:35plunged seawards in a blazing mass. Just three years before,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35when a Zeppelin first appeared here in the skies above Great Yarmouth,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35it was an invincible force. There was nothing we could
3:14:36 > 3:14:35do to stop these machines. But now they were hopelesslx
3:14:36 > 3:14:35outclassed, and never again would But the Zeppelin war had shown us
3:14:36 > 3:14:35those at home were now as vulnerable War had been brought to the front
3:14:36 > 3:14:35door ` and something had to change. The air raids made
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the government acutely aware they needed an aerial defence system that
3:14:36 > 3:14:35operated in depth. They led to the formation of the RAF
3:14:36 > 3:14:35in 1918. And to the development of operations
3:14:36 > 3:14:35rooms such as this one here at Duxford that proved so crucial in
3:14:36 > 3:14:351940, during the Battle of Britain. And ultimately victory in the
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Second World War. But what of the mass hysteria
3:14:36 > 3:14:35the Germans ` and even some in And the reaction to that first raid
3:14:36 > 3:14:35on Great Yarmouth had set the tone. When bombs fell in these streets,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35Martha Taylor and Samuel Smith were killed,
3:14:36 > 3:14:35there was no panic, no chaos. People pulled together
3:14:36 > 3:14:35and stood firm. And maybe that's the true legacy
3:14:36 > 3:14:35of these Zeppelin raids. People's strength and resilience `
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