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==Death in the last raid over Great Britain== Strasser did not live to see the end of the war. On 5 August 1918,<ref name=Lehmann5/> during a night raid against [[Boston, Lincolnshire|Boston]], [[Norwich]], and the Humber Estuary, Strasser's [[Zeppelin LZ 112|L 70]] met a British reconnaissance [[D.H.4]].<ref name=l>{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Eric|title=The first air campaign, August 1914-November 1918|year=1996|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=0-306-81213-4|pages=79β80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PGHckhHiX0C&q=Zeppelin%20reconnaissance%20raids%20missions&pg=PA79|author2=Lawson, Jane}}</ref> Pilot Major [[Egbert Cadbury]] and Gunner Major [[Robert Leckie (aviator)|Robert Leckie]] shot down the L 70 just north of [[Wells-next-the-Sea]] on the [[Norfolk]] coast. None of the 23 men aboard survived. It proved to be the last airship raid over Great Britain.<ref name=l/>
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