8 September 1914 The aircraft was an Austrian reconnaissance craft rammed by a Russian plane in Galicia in the Eastern Front. Both planes crashed. killing all occupants. October 5, 1914 is the date when French pilot Louis Quenault opened fire on a German aircraft with a machine gun for the first time.
Which ship was sunk in World War II on 17 June 1940 in the course of evacuating British nationals and troops, with the loss of an estimated more than 4,000 men, women and children?
The airship L.19, a World War 1 Zeppelin of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) came down in the North Sea while returning from her first bombing raid on the United Kingdom during the night of 1/2 February 1916. What was the controversy following this incident?
