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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text : "DEUTSCHE MARINE LUFTSCHIFFE BOMBARDIEREN BEFEST.ENGL.KÜSTENPLATZE I.D.NACHT 19-20 JAN.1915" (in seven lines on plain
background) & "62" (in very small characters at upper left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
62 in a series of over a hundred small coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes, and those of her
allies, in the first two years of the First World War. The obverse bears the standard design for the series, a winged figure of Victory
holding a flaming sword and victor's laurel wreath crown together with the variant inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE' ('God
hath blessed the allied Armies'). The reverse text commemorates the German naval airship raid on the coast of Norfolk (England) in January
1915 and is translated as 'German naval airships bombard English fortified towns on the coast during the night of 19-20 January 1915'. The
airships L3 and L4 started from Fuhlsbüttel and the L6 from Nordholz, the latter returned with failing engines before reaching the English
coast. 25 bombs were dropped killing four people and injuring 16, both L3 and L4 returned safely to base. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.N & German Naval Airship Service commemorative Zeppelin Raid on & 19/1/1915 = 20/1/1915 Air Operations & Zeppelin Offensive against Britain & Norfolk First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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