Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (GS) BAT196 1798 - The Burning of

1798 - The Burning of L Orient by Ivan Berryman

Corporal Allen

Shown here stalking a marauding German bomber in Hurricane V6555 DA-T of No

After the battle of Kursk

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (GS) BAT196 1798 - The Burning ofDHM1813GS. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa