But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier. This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship.

represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy's only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin in the 1930s, these helium-filled airships carried aircraft for ...

Where do you park a zeppelin (here, the Navy airship Los Angeles ... to enhance the Navy’s supreme icon of warfare: the aircraft carrier. Career Navy men went to Annapolis, made the choice ...