Research Catalog

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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Holdings

Details

Description

xiv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm

Alternative Title

History of the airship in the United States Navy

Subject

• United States. Navy > History
• United States. Navy
• Airships > United States > History
• Airships
• Armed Forces > Aviation
• United States

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