The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...

Key Point: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. Thank goodness the Nazi carrier suffered from a wide variety of problems. From the first days of his ascension to ...

Graf Zeppelin navigator Max Prüß uses a sextant to find a Sun line of position during a record-setting, around-the-world flight in 1929. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) It was ...

Poland's navy said Thursday that it identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin — a find that promises to shed ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Had it been completed, Graf Zeppelin could have thrown a wrench into Allied naval warfighting plans. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned ...

It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

The project aims to make readers experience the 1929 adventure through the testimony of one of its passengers and images of the golden age of zeppelins. On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo ...

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

A viral photograph supposedly showing a zeppelin airship flying above the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is frequently circulated on social media: We have not been able to locate the original source of ...

The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...