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German Naval Air Service Incendiary Bomb (Mark Unknown)

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1914-1918, London, Hangar Two, 81/O/480

Standard First World War German incendiary bomb, as dropped from airships. Suspension loop at top. Circular, domed bottom corroded/burnt away. Wrapped with rope, which would originally be tar soaked. Rusty surface.

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L33 Commemorative Plaque

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1916, London, Hangar Two, 1998/0009/C

Local made bronze/brass? plaque lacquered with SEPT. 24th ZEPPELIN L33 1916 painted in black on the front. Riveted a now broken section of alloy structure from the airship, which itself has one rivet and a fragment of a connected section. the airship fragment is now broken into two.

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Diary of Zeppelin raids in 1916

Archives, In Storage, X003-0322

Personal diary kept by Nell Tyrrell on the Zeppelin raids experienced in 1916.

open page inside a school excercise book with blue joined up writing on the lefthand page and a photograph of a man in uniform on the right page, RAF Museum/Nell Tyrrell

General view of Zeppelin, in flight, over Lake Constance, 1900

Photographs, In Storage, PC73/37/6

On 2 July 1900 Zeppelin LZ 1 made its first flight from its floating hangar on Lake Constance. More flights were made in October before the airship was scrapped.

An airship flying over boats, RAF Museum

Letter from R W Donkin

Archives, In Storage, DC75/57

This letter from a boy to his parents captures the excitement of a child experiencing war. It also reflects public fascination with a new weapon, the Zeppelin.

Sheet of lined note paper with large childish writing, © R W Donkin