In the Track of the Zepps

Non-Fiction
1915
2mins
United Kingdom
No Dialogue with English subtitles

Our chaps can do it again! Meet the brave men who tackled Zeppelin airships for a living during WWI.

The title of this Warwick Bioscope newsreel references the derring-do of Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, who was awarded the Victoria Cross after shooting down a German Zeppelin airship in June 1915. The film itself highlights contemporaries of Warneford who tackled airships daily; the man himself wasn’t caught on camera, and sadly died in an air crash within days of the newsreel’s release.

Genres
Non-Fiction, War
Subjects
World War I, Airships