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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...