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 Remember: The Treaty of Versailles sharply limited both German aviation and German naval construction, making aircraft carriers out of the question. When Hitler renounced those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People climbed to the tops of buildings and jammed Scenic Drive with their cars Aug. 27, 1929, for a look at an airship three times as long as the County Courthouse block. The Graf Zeppelin, ...

LAX. Thousands of spectators jammed Mines Field on Aug. 26, 1929, 20 years before the airfield officially became known as Los Angeles International Airport. The occasion: the arrival of the Graf ...

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, ...