They were first used to attack Antwerp in August 1914 and then deployed for night raids in the UK from January 1915. By 1917, long-range German Gotha bombers were carrying out daylight raids in ...

Ration books were issued to all households in WW1. They were designed ... the highest award for gallantry. The raids over Britain continued throughout 1917, with German Gotha planes supporting ...

THE recent night raids on Paris by squadrons of Gotha machines brings the question of defence against such raids before us, and adds much interest to an article by Lieut. Jean-Abel Lefranc ...

In reaction to the Zeppelin raids of 1915-17 and Gotha bomber raids of 1917-8, some 200 posts of the Metropolitan Observation Service staffed by volunteers were established in 1916, which ...

The raids petered out. The Allies toasted their victory over German air power... And then the first Gotha bombers arrived over Folkestone and London, dropping even more death and destruction ...

This was the first night raid by the menacing Gotha bombers, which would unleash waves of carnage on the capital over the coming months. The main attack followed an arc from Hornsey in the north ...

Previously unpublished documents show the path taken by 16 German aeroplanes across Kent and Essex into London during one devastating raid on December 6, 1917. Strategic bombing raids, more ...

Previous bombing raids in the First World War were instigated by Zeppelins but they had become susceptible to being shot down by the British so the Germans introduced the feared Gotha bi-plane ...