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American Airships
- Airship: DJ's Zeppelin Page
This website features three individual photo galleries on separate pages of
original photographs of the USS Akron, USS Los Angeles and the USS Macon.
http://www.airships.net/
- Aviation History Online Museum
This is an extract from Modern Aircraft by Victor W. Page and was
published in 1927. It compares American Airships to German Airships.
http://www.aviation-history.com/theory/airship/airship.htm
- Bluejean's Place
This is a collection of colour photographs of a visit to the various
memorials commemorating the wreck of the USS Shenandoah. The Airship
crashed barely two years after her commissioning in south-eastern Ohio.
http://www.bluejeansplace.com/
USSShenandoahMemorial.html
- David and Liz's Homepage
A relatively brief but well illustrated report about the crash of the USS Macon
from a war gamers' perspective. It also includes a map of the last flight.
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/
genquar/airships.htm
- Don Skiff's Home Page
This is a collection of eleven old photographs from family photograph albums
of the aftermath of the crash of the USS Shenandoah, many with people milling
around the wreckage.
http://www.donskiff.com/wreck_of_the_shenandoah.htm
- George's World
This website features sixteen photographs in total: four of the USS Los
Angeles at Lakehurst, New Jersey before and after her commissioning and
twelve of the USS Shenandoah flying in and around St Louis, Missouri.
http://www.letgeorgedoit.com/airship_photos.htm
- LA-ex.org
Whilst the fourth and current USS Los Angeles is a nuclear powered submarine,
the second was a rigid Airship, built in Germany, for the United States Navy.
This website mainly a selection of photographs and postcards. Note: The
following link was originally one line.
http://www.la-ex.org/View_Photos/1974_Christening/Ancestors/
Airship_USS_Los_Angeles_larges/
airship_uss_los_angeles_larges.html
- Lakewood Public Library
This is a report about the crash of the USS Shenandoah that was originally
published in the Lakewood Sun Post as part of the Lakewood Lore column.
It includes eyewitness accounts of the crash and the aftermath.
http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore152.htm
- Lighter-Than-Air Association
The Lighter-Than-Air Society was established in Akron, Ohio and it is devoted to
the study of all form of Lighter-than-air aviation, not just Airships.
http://www.blimpinfo.com/
- Lucidcafe
This is a short and fairly brief, though extremely well illustrated, article
about the USS Macon. It examines her role as an airborne aircraft carrier and
her crash off Point Sur, California.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/macon.html
- Magweb
This is a sample article from The Naval SITREP about the convoy
escort role that Airships played during World War One. It also includes the
specifications of the USS Macon.
http://www.magweb.com/sample/snav/sn10airs.htm
- Moffett Field History Society
Moffett Filed was the home base for the USS Macon and this society was
formed to operate the museum. The museum was formerly located in Hanger
One.
http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/
- NASA Technical Reports Server
The NASA technical reports server includes reports from NASA's predecessor,
the NACA or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The NACA undertook
aeronautical research.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp
- National Park Service
This is an itinerary of aviation related travel sites. The lighter than air
aviation sites are listed in the categories of aviation pioneers and air
power, though you will need to know the names of the facilities to locate
relevant information.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/sitelist.htm
- National Underwater and Marine Agency
This is a brief written report by Clive Cusslers' National Underwater and
Marine Agency about their search for the wreck of the USS Akron off Beach
Haven, New Jersey. This report is not illustrated.
http://www.numa.net/expeditions/akron.html
- Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
The official website of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society features a large
amount of information about the history of American airships such as the USS
Akron, USS Los Angeles and the USS Shenandoah at Lakehurst, New Jersey and
also their hangers.
http://www.nlhs.com/
- NEW! - Spiegel Online
This is an article about the search for the wreck of the USS Macon off
the coast of California. The highlight is the two photograph galleries:
The first is of the search and the second is of the early days of
aviation, such as the Hindenburg.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,441035,00.html
- Zeppelin Library Archive
This website has individual pages for the German built USS Los Angeles in
addition to the American built USS Shenandoah and a combined page about the
USS Akron and USS Macon. All pages includes photographs and specifications.
http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/
Great_Zepps.html
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