Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (APB) UNT93 landed with the first wave

landed with the first wave at Utah beach

James G Struthers

and was capable of making takeoffs and landings in fairly high seas

800-kg) bomb or numbers of smaller bombs

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (APB) UNT93 landed with the first waveDHM1813APB. 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