XV. Airship Types in the Postwar Period The airships employed by the Navy after WW II included the operating types used in the war, as well as some modified and several new types classes. The G - N class blimp - Document - PDFSEARCH.IO

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	The Ghost Blimp On August 16, 1942 two US Navy pilots vanished into thin. They were flying the Navy’s L-8 blimp. The airship took off on scheduled patrol off the California coast near San Francisco. They were patrollin DocID: 1oZBS - View Document
	Sardinia; and Littorio Field in Rome, Italy. After the fighting ended, ZP-14 continued its minesweeeping from Cuers, France; Lido, Italy; the island of Malta; and Pisa, Itlay. ZP-14 continued minesweeping during October DocID: ow4Y - View Document
	successful even though there were no sightings or attacks on enemy submarines. This is substantiated by the fact that none of the ships escorted by ZP41 were attacked or sunk. In March 1945, a CNO dispatch ordered the wi DocID: ovav - View Document
	directional control during rough air conditions and at low speeds. However, it was felt this was because of its small size and not due to the design of the airship. On the sixth anniversary of the ZMC-2’s first flight, DocID: ot1n - View Document
	XV. Airship Types in the Postwar Period The airships employed by the Navy after WW II included the operating types used in the war, as well as some modified and several new types/classes. The G DocID: osY1 - View Document