Death in The Last Raid Over Great Britain
Strasser did not live to see the end of the war. On 5 August 1918, during a night raid against Boston, Norwich, and the Humber estuary, Strasser's L70 met a British reconnaissance D.H.4. Pilot Major Egbert Cadbury and Gunner Major Robert Leckie shot down the L70 just north of Wells-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast. No one of 23 men aboard survived. It proved to be the last airship raid over Great Britain.
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