Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first blimp squadron has been operating since January from the first base: Lakehurst, N.J. A second base, at South Weymouth, Mass., is open. Operating squadrons will not base at either South Weymouth or Elizabeth City for a few weeks, until a stock of new blimps float in. The West Coast blimp squadron bases at Sunnyvale. Calif. Two more bases are to be constructed soon (Florida, Southern California); one more is contemplated in the Puget Sound area of Washington...
Some new answers were on the way. The initials were K2, PC and PT. With enough of these the U.S. could absolutely dominate all of the nearby Atlantic, and the main Atlantic Fleet could concentrate on the farther reaches. Kas are blimps, nonrigid airships, capable of patrolling an area of 2,000 square miles of ocean every twelve hours. When the U.S. gets enough blimps nosing out of bases up & down the Atlantic Coast, no submarine will dare venture in daylight within blimp-range along the entire coast. The U.S. Navy, never a small operator, planned a total...
Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, inveterate lighter-than-air enthusiast, had long since won recognition and appropriations for middle-sized blimps. Last week he was happy: blimps have been "contacting the enemy," and the third Eastern blimp base was opened, at Elizabeth City...
...miles at 55 m.p.h. Crew totals eight; armament includes machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. They are less vulnerable than laymen think, since helium is noninflammable. Airplane attack from above would be more or less ineffectual, unless their fire practically sawed off a section of the airship: some blimps can romp home despite a goodly number of bullet holes, despite losing as much as one-third of their gas volume. Such holes are easily patched, even in flight. And if the airplane swings up from below, the attack is met by heavy guns. Sure blimp-killers are anti-aircraft...
...true spirit of determination of the people in this crisis. . . . Personal extravagance must be eliminated altogether. ... I am certain that every member of the Cabinet will be prepared to [attend] the funeral of that person whom I hope we may now describe as the late, but not lamented Colonel Blimp...