2-369-432 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Captain Peter Strasser, German airship fleet commander, World War I, 1916-1918 (1933). Strasser (1876-1918) was commander of the German Navy's fleet of Zeppelin airships during the First World War, directing bombing campaigns from 1915 onwards. He was killed on 5th August 1918 when his airship, Zeppelin L70, was shot down over the Norfolk coast. A photograph from Zeppelin-Weltfahrten, Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 Graf Zepplin 1932, Dresden, 1933.