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Some day the U.S. Navy might start building huge rigid Zeppelin types again, heavily armed, capable of transporting as many as 1,000 parachutists, tons of bombs, and bearing within them bombing and scouting airplanes available instantly for offensive or defensive duty. The Germans have at least two large rigid airships-the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-130, and some experts believe they constitute Hitler's boasted "secret weapon'' for the invasion of England...
Worse than the humiliation was the new fear. Now the Germans could assemble a pretty formidable fleet-the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleships Lützow and Admiral Scheer, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin (and perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet...
...notion of employing airships as plane carriers is not regarded in Washington as moonshine. The rumor is rife that the Nazis intend to load up the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-70 with planes, ship them west for token bombing raids on the U.S. It would be a dangerous trip for them in more ways than one. The Nazis have no helium, would have to inflate their dirigibles with inflammable hydrogen. The U.S. still has the only helium available-thanks largely to tough little Harold Ickes, who killed a proposed sale to the Germans back...
...long lull in bombing, the subways in London are almost empty, with citizens preferring to take their chances in their own homes. Among the unique shelters used by Londoners are the arches of the railway viaducts, under which they ran instinctively because "their fathers used them to escape Zeppelin attack...
...Aluminum relics of the Navy's late dirigible Shenandoah turned up in Ohio where the airship crashed 16 years ago. Into a collection bin at Point Pleasant, N.J., went a fragment of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, which burned at Lakehurst...