Date:	Tuesday 6 August 1918
Time:
Type:	Zeppelin LZ.112
Owner/operator:	Imperial German Navy
Registration:	L.70
MSN:	LZ112
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Friedrichshafen, Germany
Destination airport:	Friedrichshafen, Germany
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Directed last raid on England on 6 August 1918, with KK Peter Strasser, Commander of the Navy Airship Department on board; intercepted and destroyed over North Sea by British de Havilland DH-4 flown by Major Egbert Cadbury with Captain Robert Leckie (later Air Vice-Marshal) as gunner. Both these men shot down two Zeppelins: prior to L 70, Cadbury had downed L 21 and Leckie, L 22.

On 7 August 1918, the skeletal remains of L 70 was discovered on the seabed in 48 feet of water. During the next three weeks the remains were brought ashore,and in the wreckage were discovered some of the crew of 21. including the commander Fregattenkaptain Peter Strasser. Over the following three weeks, all 21 crew were recovered, some in the wreckage, some that were washed ashore; all were given a burial at sea with full military honors.

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2. Thetford, Owen. British Naval Aircraft since 1912. London: Putnam, Fourth edition, 1978. ISBN 0-370-30021-1.
3. Walter J. Boyne (2003). The influence of air power upon history. Pelican Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 1-58980-034-6.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins
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8. http://www.gtyarmouth.co.uk/bygones/aussie_arthur/html/zeppelin_l70.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Jan-2008 05:00	ASN archive	Added
25-Oct-2011 13:12	harro	Updated [Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
15-Feb-2017 21:32	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
15-Feb-2017 21:44	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
12-Jan-2018 10:09	harro	Updated [Operator]