I feel this was an important one. Schools only talk about the air raids of WW2, they never mention it started in WW1. I was so confused when some dramas set in WW1 showed air raids with the Zeppelins, it's good to learn that they weren't being inaccurate at all.
Zeppelins and Blimps are two different types of airships. Zeppelins are rigid airships whilst Blimps are non-rigid airships. To simplify things, think of Blimps as a balloon whilst Zeppelins has many balloons. And if you want to really dig into it then there are semi rigid airships as well as the new hybrid airships that are being made/researched. I would provide more info on the differences but google will probably serve you better.
A fun fact. The worst airship disaster in human history wasn't the Hindenburg. It was a US airship. The USS Akron was the deadliest. Killing twice as many as died in the Hindenburg crash. In fact 2/3rds of the people on the Hindenburg actually survived. It goes to show a press narrative is nothing new. How easy it is to spin things by leaving soon things out or just glossing over others.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Hydrogen filled cigars 3:20 - Chapter 2 - The raids begin 5:45 - Chapter 3 - Darts & grapnels 8:10 - Chapter 4 - Terror over london 11:40 - Chapter 5 - Biplanes fight back 14:40 - Chapter 6 - End of the silent raiders 17:15 - Chapter 7 - The shape of wars to come - Chapter 8 - PS: *Teodorani* Fabbri ? Is he related to Arnaldo ?
Hello mr Legend. Yes, I learned about this topic after I found a scholarly article on the British countermeasures against the zeppelins in this gentleman’s library. Who happens to be my father, by the way.
Oddly enough I only exist today because of a zeppelin raid. My great grandfather was waiting to be deployed to the western front when a raid resulted in him losing his left arm. On his journey home back to Canada he met my great grandmother by chance and they were married a month later.
I have a book called "The Zeppelin in Combat" by Douglas H. Robinson on this subject. it is an outstanding book if Zeppelins and their missions interest you.
The Kaiser saying that he was concerned about hitting a Royale family member since they were cousins make the wars in Europe sound like family squabbles fought by the common people.
Wars are still like this. Putin started a war to annex Ukraine to boost his popularity. US presidents start wars to pretend they are helping the common man with oil prices. One of the only justifiable wars in the last century was WW2 to stop the Nazis and the Japanese.
Airships with the designation SLxx where 'Schütte-Lanz' airships build with a wooden frame and ZLxx where 'real' Zeppelins build with an aluminum frame. Even an 'ineffective' air defense has an effects in forcing the attackers to fly in high altitude, making aiming more difficult ore reducing the attack to night raids ...
the bbc did a series on ww1 called the great war and interviewed one of the zeppelin crew and what struck me was him saying how cold it was in it (the episodes are on youtube)
I've been getting into this Channel lately. I am subscribed for all of Simon's Channels. This is the only one I wasn't watching regularly. I'm glad that's changed! I enjoy all of these episodes and binged most of them recently. If possible can you do more ancient battles? I know it isn't an easy ask for your script writer considering sources can differ widely, if they exist in detail at all. For those battles from ancient times that have details I'd love to see more. I feel as though we have a poor understanding of how battles were actually fought from Roman times and the pre-modern era even. Enjoyable video as always! Thank you Simon and Co!
Yes, I second the ancient battles. Like when Vlad the impaler, impaled his enemies. There's so many ancient battles it's hard to even think of individual instances to recommend
@@joeyr7294 I thought the same thing. I didn't know what to suggest. So I went with the broad strokes. I lack the big brain to know the names of ancient battles off the top of my head. Glad to get replies from the Channel and someone seconding the suggestion. Can I third the idea even though I recommended it? Internet rules are different. Much to my dismay usually.
@@sandybarnes887 What can I say? Don't tell my boss how much time I'm spending on RUclips at work. Simon takes up a good 2 hours of my work day. Allegedly. Simon may be the cause of a lot of lost work time throughout the world. Allegedly. Am I right Peter! ;)
Thank you for taking on this topic. I’ve read two books on what is indeed the First Battle of Britain and what strikes me is how brutally mean-spirited the Zeppelin raids were. No war aims-just kill shopkeepers and children. And yet it ended up the shape of things to come …
Actually that's pretty much untrue,. they had detailled maps and bomb-plans with target designation. They tried to hit targets like textile-warehouses, the Bank of England, Whitehall and other targets like that. Unfortunately the Bomb as such was a new technology in 1915, nevermind the bomb sight.
@@na3044 triggered, how did i know that youd come back with those exact words! after leaving the bait , you virtue signalling peanuts are getting to predictable now almost like reading from an out dated playbook????, its called sow the wind and reap the muver fukin whirlwind??? Is that good enough for yer?..and shall we ask the people of guenica, warsaw, Rotterdam,Guernsey, london, Birmingham, coventry, glasgow, cardiff, belfast,Dublin Sheffield, Manchester,hull, norwich, plymouth, portsmouth, shall i keep going??...
I often wonder what it must have been like, as a civilian in 1914/15, seeing those gigantic zeppelins over your town or city, just the sheer sight of them must have been absolutely terrifying at the time… Great video, I always assumed that the zeppelins were always a sitting duck for anti-aircraft guns or fighter planes, but this wasn’t the case, given they could fly to much higher altitude much quicker than the aircraft at the time…
Are bumblebees really the brave, powerful image we want to be putting onto our fighter planes? Like, *I* know bees are badass, but I do wonder how much THEY knew that
Arnaldo Teodorani have you ever heard of the "Lufberry Circle"? He was apparently a WW1 flying ace. My dad was named after him and that's all I know. Would love a Warographics video on him if possible.
Yes, I vaguely know about Raoul Lufbery, who invented the Lufbery Circle, a much used defensive formation. Perhaps he may be more suited for a Biographics video?
Blimps. That would have been an early answer: Smaller airships capable of more than equaling the performance of the larger Zeps and devoted to intercepting them. Maybe equip them with larger, longer-range guns than the Zeps' machine guns.
Whomever designed the quadroplane seems to have forgotten that drag existed. Yes, the four wings gave it a great advantage in climbing, but what looks to be dozens of struts supporting the wings would negate all of that.
Excellent information about Zeppelin bombers during WW1...especially against British...for that ..since 1925 British defense efforts focused on royal airforce progression ...also its notable zeppelin riders were not effectiveness of caused much casualties amongst citizens...it was propagandist powerful & demoralized factor against civilians
I'm surprised so few British people know about these raids? I was taught about it at school in the seventies. Then again the Schütte-Lanz 11 came down in Cuffley and Zeppelin L31 was shot down close by only a few weeks later over Potters Bar, both of which are only a few miles from my school. Also, back in the seventies, some older local people still remembered the event!
my great grandmother rembered the events you mentioned, she was living just over the border in Essex at the time, She was still around in the early 2000s
Ahhh yes yes, I'm now switching 9n my TV and searching for that Michael York film, I was born in 1979 but I remember my mum and dad watching it on TV and being fascinated as a young kid. Epic machines and a great movie....what was it called again?
A great one is “Zeppelins of World War I” by Wilber Cross.There are also many other books about the great airships another one is “Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine” about the Graf Zeppelin by Douglas Botting.
Simon, you’re a fucking genius. You’re also a fascinating speaker. This is, of course, awesome to watch. Love the subject, and finally a ww2 story I don’t know front to back.
Hey, can you do the history of MonsterTrucks? I hope you take it into consideration because they are very cool and way more complex than most people think. And you know, millions of people are fans.
@@jthomas4361 I don't care. I've gotten two videos made from sheer persistence so I know it works. It's for my deceased father and my brother. It's for them... I vowed to stop bothering this channel after this endeavor. That's it.
I think using the term “successful raid” in reference to the killing of 10 civilians is a bit counter intuitive. The phrase would not be used in the context of an ISIS attack.
I live in Great Yarmouth , widely regarded as the first recipient of the first air raid. ( it`s actually not ;) ) The bombs fell 3 streets away , killing 2 and wounding some others.
the only pyshical everdance of all the zepline raids , ie a bomb crater is in the Rosendale valley in lancashire . the only victim of this raid was a thrush
Holy shit. Can you imagine being Rex Warneford facing an entire Zeppelin on his own with a 1915 fighter plane?! climbing to *30,000* feet and *nosediving* to drop *SIX FUCKIN BOMBS* on the roof of a new state-of-the-art weapon never before seen in war that gentleman is a fuckin LAD [for reference, most modern commercial airplanes fly at 36,000 ft]
We british forgive our saxon brethren with this one!!, after all it was a war,and holding grudges gets you nowhere, its just living with perpetual hate and willl not make you live a conducive and conductive happy life...instead rather it being filled with bitterness 24/7,huhh, humbug....
Definitely need to cover the Battle of Fredericksburg. One of the key battles of the US War Between the States; this battle had a significant moment of courage, heroism, and compassion when Sergeant, later 2nd Lt. Richard Rowland Kirkland of the CSA brought water to wounded Federals despite major risks to his person.
I can absolutely imagine Brain Blaze Simon acquiring a zeppelin to drop pamphlets advertising his and the other Simon's channels.
Enough with the channels already
I feel this was an important one. Schools only talk about the air raids of WW2, they never mention it started in WW1. I was so confused when some dramas set in WW1 showed air raids with the Zeppelins, it's good to learn that they weren't being inaccurate at all.
Yeah im sure they could hit a pickle barrel...
I have long been fascinated by Zeppelins / Airships / Blimps/ whatever-you-want-to-call-'em. Thanks for this informative episode!
Zeppelins and Blimps are two different types of airships. Zeppelins are rigid airships whilst Blimps are non-rigid airships. To simplify things, think of Blimps as a balloon whilst Zeppelins has many balloons. And if you want to really dig into it then there are semi rigid airships as well as the new hybrid airships that are being made/researched. I would provide more info on the differences but google will probably serve you better.
Blimps are essentially balloons with engines. Zeppelins have an internal framework and are held aloft by bags containing the lifting gas.
A fun fact. The worst airship disaster in human history wasn't the Hindenburg. It was a US airship.
The USS Akron was the deadliest. Killing twice as many as died in the Hindenburg crash. In fact 2/3rds of the people on the Hindenburg actually survived.
It goes to show a press narrative is nothing new. How easy it is to spin things by leaving soon things out or just glossing over others.
“Terror of death, raining from a lacerated sky…” Simon, is that a low-key Slayer reference I heard?
Real ones heard it
The writer
You would enjoy the Mark Felton channels, he has made a good few episodes about the WWI bombing raids.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Hydrogen filled cigars
3:20 - Chapter 2 - The raids begin
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Darts & grapnels
8:10 - Chapter 4 - Terror over london
11:40 - Chapter 5 - Biplanes fight back
14:40 - Chapter 6 - End of the silent raiders
17:15 - Chapter 7 - The shape of wars to come
- Chapter 8 -
PS: *Teodorani* Fabbri ? Is he related to Arnaldo ?
Hello mr Legend. Yes, I learned about this topic after I found a scholarly article on the British countermeasures against the zeppelins in this gentleman’s library. Who happens to be my father, by the way.
Oddly enough I only exist today because of a zeppelin raid. My great grandfather was waiting to be deployed to the western front when a raid resulted in him losing his left arm. On his journey home back to Canada he met my great grandmother by chance and they were married a month later.
4:49 Simon with the Slayer reference!!!!!! Nice one!!
Thank you, Simon 😅 I’ve always felt that this chapter of WWI has been overlooked!
Not really, battlefield 1 made them really famous
I have a book called "The Zeppelin in Combat" by Douglas H. Robinson on this subject. it is an outstanding book if Zeppelins and their missions interest you.
The story of Germany's 4-engine giant bomber biplanes is worthy of it's own video.
The Kaiser saying that he was concerned about hitting a Royale family member since they were cousins make the wars in Europe sound like family squabbles fought by the common people.
Wars are still like this. Putin started a war to annex Ukraine to boost his popularity. US presidents start wars to pretend they are helping the common man with oil prices. One of the only justifiable wars in the last century was WW2 to stop the Nazis and the Japanese.
It was
Love the Slayer reference, Simon!
🤘
This episode made me realize that Simon talks somewhat like Winston Churchill: With lots ... of ... not entirely appropriate ... pauses.
Airships with the designation SLxx where 'Schütte-Lanz' airships build with a wooden frame and ZLxx where 'real' Zeppelins build with an aluminum frame.
Even an 'ineffective' air defense has an effects in forcing the attackers to fly in high altitude, making aiming more difficult ore reducing the attack to night raids ...
the bbc did a series on ww1 called the great war and interviewed one of the zeppelin crew and what struck me was him saying how cold it was in it (the episodes are on youtube)
I've been getting into this Channel lately. I am subscribed for all of Simon's Channels. This is the only one I wasn't watching regularly. I'm glad that's changed! I enjoy all of these episodes and binged most of them recently. If possible can you do more ancient battles? I know it isn't an easy ask for your script writer considering sources can differ widely, if they exist in detail at all. For those battles from ancient times that have details I'd love to see more. I feel as though we have a poor understanding of how battles were actually fought from Roman times and the pre-modern era even. Enjoyable video as always! Thank you Simon and Co!
Thanks. Yes, we can try :)
Yes, I second the ancient battles. Like when Vlad the impaler, impaled his enemies. There's so many ancient battles it's hard to even think of individual instances to recommend
@@joeyr7294
I thought the same thing. I didn't know what to suggest. So I went with the broad strokes. I lack the big brain to know the names of ancient battles off the top of my head. Glad to get replies from the Channel and someone seconding the suggestion. Can I third the idea even though I recommended it? Internet rules are different. Much to my dismay usually.
All 14 channels? You are an og legend. Allegedly
@@sandybarnes887
What can I say? Don't tell my boss how much time I'm spending on RUclips at work. Simon takes up a good 2 hours of my work day. Allegedly. Simon may be the cause of a lot of lost work time throughout the world. Allegedly. Am I right Peter! ;)
Well made episode, I really enjoyed learning about this part of history
Thanks.
Thank you for taking on this topic.
I’ve read two books on what is indeed the First Battle of Britain and what strikes me is how brutally mean-spirited the Zeppelin raids were. No war aims-just kill shopkeepers and children.
And yet it ended up the shape of things to come …
Actually that's pretty much untrue,. they had detailled maps and bomb-plans with target designation. They tried to hit targets like textile-warehouses, the Bank of England, Whitehall and other targets like that. Unfortunately the Bomb as such was a new technology in 1915, nevermind the bomb sight.
@@na3044oh ok then , that makes it completely acceptable then??,Muppet...
@@wor53lg50 I dunno, how about we ask the people of Dresden about that idea.
@@na3044 triggered, how did i know that youd come back with those exact words! after leaving the bait , you virtue signalling peanuts are getting to predictable now almost like reading from an out dated playbook????, its called sow the wind and reap the muver fukin whirlwind??? Is that good enough for yer?..and shall we ask the people of guenica, warsaw, Rotterdam,Guernsey, london, Birmingham, coventry, glasgow, cardiff, belfast,Dublin Sheffield, Manchester,hull, norwich, plymouth, portsmouth, shall i keep going??...
I’d love to see a video on the Battle of Khe Sanh or the Tet Offensive
Ur truly a quality guy Simon👌 keep up the good shiz.
Suggestion: The Navajo Code Talkers of WW2.
It must have been....uhmmmm.. AWKWARD to drop bombs then fly away with the speed of a brisk JOG.
Excellent episode.
I often wonder what it must have been like, as a civilian in 1914/15, seeing those gigantic zeppelins over your town or city, just the sheer sight of them must have been absolutely terrifying at the time…
Great video, I always assumed that the zeppelins were always a sitting duck for anti-aircraft guns or fighter planes, but this wasn’t the case, given they could fly to much higher altitude much quicker than the aircraft at the time…
Are bumblebees really the brave, powerful image we want to be putting onto our fighter planes?
Like, *I* know bees are badass, but I do wonder how much THEY knew that
Arnaldo Teodorani have you ever heard of the "Lufberry Circle"? He was apparently a WW1 flying ace. My dad was named after him and that's all I know. Would love a Warographics video on him if possible.
Yes, I vaguely know about Raoul Lufbery, who invented the Lufbery Circle, a much used defensive formation. Perhaps he may be more suited for a Biographics video?
My father used to talk about his mother hiding him and his siblings under the hedge when the Z eppelins flew overhead,they were living in Lowerstoft .
You got to respect a group of musicians in the late 60s who named their band after these things that killed so many.
I'll bet that band went over like a lead balloon
Blimps.
That would have been an early answer: Smaller airships capable of more than equaling the performance of the larger Zeps and devoted to intercepting them. Maybe equip them with larger, longer-range guns than the Zeps' machine guns.
Lighter than air craft have always been tempting to humans but also always ended in disappointment.
Kudos for the use of lyrics of a slayer song.
Good video 👍
Did we just get a Slayer reference? Raining (blood) from a lacerated sky.
Or to be exact: a Jeff Hanneman reference.
It is King's Lynn, not 'kinglynn' :) 3:40
Whomever designed the quadroplane seems to have forgotten that drag existed. Yes, the four wings gave it a great advantage in climbing, but what looks to be dozens of struts supporting the wings would negate all of that.
It's somewhat odd that your glasses do not appear to change the way your eyes look; the lenses do not appear to be effectively concave or convex.
I recall watching the broadcast of a play by G.B. Shaw of an upper class garden party suddenly surprised by a zep raid.
Excellent information about Zeppelin bombers during WW1...especially against British...for that ..since 1925 British defense efforts focused on royal airforce progression ...also its notable zeppelin riders were not effectiveness of caused much casualties amongst citizens...it was propagandist powerful & demoralized factor against civilians
I'm surprised so few British people know about these raids? I was taught about it at school in the seventies. Then again the Schütte-Lanz 11 came down in Cuffley and Zeppelin L31 was shot down close by only a few weeks later over Potters Bar, both of which are only a few miles from my school. Also, back in the seventies, some older local people still remembered the event!
my great grandmother rembered the events you mentioned, she was living just over the border in Essex at the time, She was still around in the early 2000s
Fascinating video. How about a follow-up video detailing the later Gotha bombing raids?
Ahhh yes yes, I'm now switching 9n my TV and searching for that Michael York film, I was born in 1979 but I remember my mum and dad watching it on TV and being fascinated as a young kid. Epic machines and a great movie....what was it called again?
It’s title is Zeppelin and it is one of my favorite movies.Great storyline and the acting is superb.It is available on DVD.
Jarl you won’t be disappointed.
"The terror of death raining from a lacerated sky" feels like borrowed Slayer lyrics 😅
I love zeppelin's & surface to surface missiles!
I've oddly had difficulty finding good information on the zeppelins of WWI. Anyone know any good books?
The Zeppelin in Combat by Douglas H Robinson
@@sandybarnes887 thanks.
A great one is “Zeppelins of World War I” by Wilber Cross.There are also many other books about the great airships another one is “Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine” about the Graf Zeppelin by Douglas Botting.
Dam Busters raids would be a good video. Or several since the creator was quite an inventor.
dude did you just quote Slayers' "Raining Blood"?
'From a lacerated sky.' thats def. from that song!
"Terror of death raining from a lacerated sky" , hmmm sounds kinda familiar 🤔maybe it's "Raining blood from a lacerated sky" from legendary Slayer.
Is that a massive, glowing Wild Berry flavored Life Savor lingering over Simon's right shoulder? Weird! What is it doing?
Did Simon just drop a Slayer reference?!
Ty Simon
Asteroids made sure of that a long long time ago. But..
Great video💫👍
I love when Simon and Co. put out anything on aviation or mariner topics! Thanks guys 🍻💯👌
Simon, you’re a fucking genius. You’re also a fascinating speaker. This is, of course, awesome to watch. Love the subject, and finally a ww2 story I don’t know front to back.
Hey, can you do the history of MonsterTrucks?
I hope you take it into consideration because they are very cool and way more complex than most people think. And you know, millions of people are fans.
🤦🏾♂️
@@jthomas4361 I don't care. I've gotten two videos made from sheer persistence so I know it works. It's for my deceased father and my brother. It's for them... I vowed to stop bothering this channel after this endeavor. That's it.
@@michaelpipkin9942 im js saying this is the wrong type of channel, monstertrucks are civil this is a warchannel lol
I’ve also heard of a baby girl born during a raid, she was named Zepplina or some such if memory serves.
I recommend all of your history based channels to my homeschooling teacher friends.
I wish you would do the battle of catalaunian plains or adrianople.
I think using the term “successful raid” in reference to the killing of 10 civilians is a bit counter intuitive. The phrase would not be used in the context of an ISIS attack.
Can you please cover the musket wars of new Zealand
The Emu Wars?
Romanian 1989 Revolution and 1821 Wallachian uprising please!
The Ceausescus were pathetic. That stunned expression on Nicolae's face when the crowd started booing him makes me smile.
Yep dropping bombs while at the same time flying in a floating bomb, you know the hydrogen in all.
Kinda like the matryoshka doll of bombs
I live in Great Yarmouth , widely regarded as the first recipient of the first air raid. ( it`s actually not ;) )
The bombs fell 3 streets away , killing 2 and wounding some others.
I'm sorry....SLAYER??! 🤘
William Leefe Robinson was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down the Zeppelin
interesting to think that there was in a sense, a first battle of britain
Please visit Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!
the only pyshical everdance of all the zepline raids , ie a bomb crater is in the Rosendale valley in lancashire . the only victim of this raid was a thrush
The enemy has been reinforced with an Airship.
BF1 anyone?
As for Blimps, I think of Stacey Abrams, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Hate to have any of them dropping a load on a town.
Ew...lol
Holy shit. Can you imagine being Rex Warneford facing an entire Zeppelin on his own with a 1915 fighter plane?! climbing to *30,000* feet and *nosediving* to drop *SIX FUCKIN BOMBS* on the roof of a new state-of-the-art weapon never before seen in war
that gentleman is a fuckin LAD
[for reference, most modern commercial airplanes fly at 36,000 ft]
Was the Zeppelins really made out of LED? Lol. I love your channels.
light emitting diodes?
Really?
Low-estoft.
Leith = Keith with a K. How you came up with Layth is beyond my comprehension.
Goethe = Gerta.
You really must try harder.
As this video shows, it was Germany that came up with the idea of ‘terror bombing’ against civilians. They should have been treated as war crimes.
No they shouldn't because then everyone should be treated like war criminals
We british forgive our saxon brethren with this one!!, after all it was a war,and holding grudges gets you nowhere, its just living with perpetual hate and willl not make you live a conducive and conductive happy life...instead rather it being filled with bitterness 24/7,huhh, humbug....
Why is this not already a big budget movie?
Check out the film 'Flyboys'- it gives a real feel to ww1, and the air war.
@@mikelanners4829 will do!
Up next;belleau Woods
Turns out chocolate really is deadly
To pop a balloon, you need a dart.
About 13:12 -- Loop in the video.
this certainly was not foreshadowing
Raining Bombs!
Definitely need to cover the Battle of Fredericksburg. One of the key battles of the US War Between the States; this battle had a significant moment of courage, heroism, and compassion when Sergeant, later 2nd Lt. Richard Rowland Kirkland of the CSA brought water to wounded Federals despite major risks to his person.
🍻💯
And hopefully my suggestions are heard as well..
@Dank didn't Simon cover Kirkland on biographics a year or so ago?
@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 especially yours!
@@joeyr7294 I don’t think so. I don’t recall Simon covering very many CSA figures (with the exception of General Lee iirc)
Who else enjoys thinking of all of Simon's channels as separate personalities lol like a weird but intriguing disorder
Nice
In a weird way history seems to be repeating itself..😵🎈
Find the slayer lyrics…
From a lacerated sky? I know those words as Slayer Lyrics. If there's an earlier source someone knows about leave it below.
I can assure you that was a Slayer reference.
@@arnaldoteodorani277 figured as much. Bleeding it's horror.
Enemy behemoth has arrived
They gave no quarter
Dresden lmao
I have translated a few first hand accounts from the German side.
Like for the Slayer reference.
I'd love to see a warographics or even biographics about the Armenian Genocide
Kashmir. Best zeppelin ever 😀
SLAAAAAYER!
Kirov airships?
If only the Germans had had a supply of helium.
Hooray for americas monopoly on helium!
Didn’t know Zeppelins had strategic advantage over other aircraft. I always thought they were used because they looked cool.
Sky starfishes
🙂