Quote Originally Posted by drewmandan View Post
Maybe I'm blind, but it looks like a zeppelin to me. And back in 1942, AA guns were so primitive that I doubt those shells even got high enough to hit the thing, and then they're also extremely inaccurate. We've all seen videos of flying fortresses flying through clouds and clouds of flak, apparently taking no damage. Well, that's because flak cannons and machine guns couldn't hit shit back then. And zeppelins had metal hulls too. It would take many direct hits to down one.
The man on the video said there were direct hits.

I think they would have been able to identify a zeppelin seeing as zeppelins are pretty darn huge.