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Sky ships : a history of the airship in the United States Navy / William F. Althoff.
- Title
- Sky ships : a history of the airship in the United States Navy / William F. Althoff.
- Author
- Althoff, William F.
- Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xiv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm
- Alternative Title
- History of the airship in the United States Navy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Establishing an air station -- The USS Shenandoah and the early years -- The USS Los Angeles: training and experimentation -- The USS Akron and USS Macon -- Lakehurst: international airport -- Preparations for war -- The war years -- Postwar progress -- End of the program -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- A. Commanding officers, NAS Lakehurst (1921-62) -- B. Performance and other data for U.S. Navy airships (1915-61) -- U.S. Navy lighter-than-air headquarters and facilities, Second World War -- Memorandum on status of lighter-than-air -- E. Postwar airship deliveries to the U.S. Navy -- F. Last airships in the U.S. Navy aircraft inventory.
- ISBN
- 9781591142133
- 159114213X
- 9781612519012 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015028296
- OCLC
- 914296391
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library