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>Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 20:13:46 -0500
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>From: Paul Silbermann <NASGRB17@sivm.si.edu>
>To: lionel_kearns@sfu.ca
>Subject: WWI in the Air (9-15 May 1915)
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>X-Comment: Military History of the First World War
>
>5/9/1915
>(night of 9/10 May) Zeppelin LZ38 attacks Southend (1 dead, 2 injured).
> Avro 500 (939) and Avro 504 (876) scrambled from RNAS Chingford; 3
> aircraft scrambled from RNAS Eastchurch; Curtiss H-4 (95 1) scrambled
> from RNAS Felixstowe; Avro 504B scrambled from RNAS Westgate; 2
> Sopwith two-seater scouts (1052, 1053) scrambled from RNAS Yarmouth -
> no interceptions
> _Aerial Age_, 24 May 1915, p.234.
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 19 May 1915, p.325.
> Cole & Cheesman, _The Air Defence of Britain 1914-1918_ (London:
> Putnam, 1984), p.52-53.
> Otto Dieckerhoff, _Deutsche Luftschiffe: 1914-1918_ (Rheingau:
> Druckerei Weiss, 1973), p.88.
>
>British Losses:
>KIA: Fox, Capt. A.G. (RE & RFC)
> Spence, Lt. C. B. (RFA & RFC) *not on field service*
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.23.
>
>5/10/1915
>French aircraft attacks airship shed at Maubeuge
>27 Allied aircraft attack 2 Zeppelins, causing 1 to crash between
> Brussels and Ghent (2 aircraft lost)
> _Aerial Age_, 24 May 1915, p.234.
>
>British Losses:
>KIA: Rodney, 2Lt. Hon. W. F. (Rifle Bde att. RFC)
>MIA: Sanford, Lt. S. A. (7th Dragoon Gds & RFC)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.24.
>
>5/11/1915
>French aircraft attacks airship shed at Maubeuge
>German aircraft attacks rail station at Doullens (from French
> communique)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 19 May 1915, p.325.
>
>German aircraft attacks Paris
> _Aerial Age_, 24 May 1915, p.234.
>
>British Losses:
>KIA: Batchelor, Flt. Sub-Lt. H.J. (RN)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.22.
>
>5/12/1915
>German aircraft (Taube) attacks Dutch steam trawler _Gravenage_ in the
> North Sea (reported from Rotterdam)
> _Aerial Age_, 24 May 1915, p.234.
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 19 May 1915, p.325.
>
>British Losses:
>Died of Pneumonia: Upton, Master Mariner R. (RFC)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.24.
>
>5/13/1915
>Zeppelin damaged in accidental grounding in Gierlesche woods
> _Aerial Age_, 31 May 1915, p.258.
>
>British Losses:
>KIA: Hanley, 1st Cl.Air Mech. (1813) (RFC)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.24.
>
>5/14/1915
>British Losses:
>MIA: Groves, Prob.Flt.Sub-Lt. John O. (RN)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.23.
>
>5/15/1915
>British Losses:
>KIA: Corbett-Wilson, Lt. D. (RFC)
> _Aeronautics_ (London), 5 Jan 1916, p.23.
>
>*************** WWI in the Air (9-15 May 1915) ****************