The airship Graf Zeppelin is shown at Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport) on Aug. 26, 1929. Two days later, the Graf flew over Iowa on its way to Chicago before finishing its ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Treaty of Versailles sharply limited both German aviation and German naval construction, making aircraft carriers out of the question. When Hitler renounced those ...

The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...

It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine ...

People climbed to the tops of buildings and jammed Scenic Drive with their cars Aug. 27, 1929, for a look at an airship three times as long as the County Courthouse block. The Graf Zeppelin, ...

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

Aug. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1533, Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, was strangled under orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire died with him. In 1929, the ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...