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 ...
In 1947, the Soviet Union refloated the Graf Zeppelin, Germany’s only aircraft carrier, and later sank it after removing valuable equipment and using the ship in an aircraft-carrier test. The ...
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 ...
Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...
Airborne aircraft carriers are a really cool idea. (Did you see the helicarrier in The Avengers?) The problem is that they don't seem to work in a practical setting. In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy ...