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Description: | German officer served as navigating officer with German Air Force in Zeppelins including L22 and L46 operating over North Sea and GB, 1916-1917
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as navigating officer in Zeppelins operating over North Sea and GB, 1916-1917: crew; difficulty in navigating over North Sea due to lack of weather reports and use of smoke bombs to judge wind drift; vulnerability of Zeppelins; problem of cold and oxygen starvation at high altitudes; effects of oxygen supplies polluted with glycerine and cold on Captain Hollender, Peter Strasser and crew of L 46 during night raid on GB, 2/9/1916; effects of cold and oxygen supplies polluted with glycerine during raid in L22 on GB, 1916; improvements brought by introduction of liquid air; changing temperatures during course of raids; escape by releasing ballast and quickly increasing altitude in combat with seaplane over North Sea, 8/1917. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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