Title

Captain Peter Strasser, German airship fleet commander, World War I, 1916-1918 (1933). Artist: Unknown

Caption

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.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1933

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C55_404

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,7Mb (1,8Mb) / 11,7in x 16,8in / 3510 x 5046 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Germany people male man men cap German country flight guy headdress aircraft war location century aviation first world war concept Navy B&W headgear MONOCHROME killed warfare air Transport commander World War I WWI naval warfare zeppelin bombing black & white black and white B W World War One 20th century airship dirigible The Print Collector 1st World War naval officer naval uniform WW1 photograph portrait Unknown Peter Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin Zeppelin Count Ferdinand von Graf Zeppelin Ferdinand von Graf von Zeppelin Ferdinand Peter Strasser Strasser Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin photograph portrait