The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany. She...
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The Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers were four German Kriegsmarine aircraft carriers planned in the mid-1930s by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder as part...
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1918. Graf Zeppelin: Graf Zeppelin-class carrier. Launched but not completed. Construction work stopped in 1943. Flugzeugträger B: Graf Zeppelin class carrier...
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have been the largest German aircraft carrier, longer even than the purpose-built Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers. The work was canceled in November...
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of aircraft carrier to meet the requirements of the revitalized German fleet; by 1936, these concepts had developed into the Graf Zeppelin class, the...
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after Count Zeppelin German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the first ship of this class Naval Air Wing 3 "Graf Zeppelin" Graf Zeppelin Barracks, Calw...
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The Courageous class, sometimes called the Glorious class, was the first multi-ship class of aircraft carriers to serve with the Royal Navy. The three...
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in response to the laying down of the carrier Graf Zeppelin by Nazi Germany in 1936. The Joffre-class carriers were 228 meters (748 ft) long between perpendiculars...
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Zeppelin's patent described a Lenkbares Luftfahrzeug mit mehreren hintereinander angeordneten Tragkörpern ("Steerable aircraft with several carrier bodies...
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for the Bismarck class and Scharnhorst-class battleships, Deutschland-class cruisers and the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers. A number of surplus...
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Fieseler Fi 167 (category Carrier-based aircraft)
torpedo and reconnaissance bomber designed for use from the Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carriers under construction from 1936 to 1942. In early 1937, the...
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor...
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their own aircraft carrier, Graf Zeppelin; and recent accounts of the heavy damage inflicted by German dive bombers on the British carrier Illustrious...
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This is a list of aircraft carriers of the Second World War. Aircraft carriers serve as a seagoing airbases, equipped with a flight deck and facilities...
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became convinced of the necessity of acquiring aircraft carriers. Work on the purpose-built carrier Graf Zeppelin, which had been halted in April 1940, was...
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construction or conversion of several aircraft carriers, but with the exception of the nearly finished Graf Zeppelin, no ship was launched. World War II...
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– Béarn demilitarised; Graf Zeppelin construction resumed 4 May – Battle of the Coral Sea commences – first carrier-to-carrier naval engagement in history...
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Trumpeter (company) (section Aircraft models)
Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov-class Aircraft carrier Essex-class Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin-class Aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk-class Aircraft...
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were laid up after the war, but were rebuilt into the Courageous-class aircraft carriers during the 1920s. Glorious and Courageous were sunk early in the...
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List of cancelled military projects (category Cancelled aircraft projects)
Ratte H-class battleship proposals O-class battlecruiser Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier Jade-class aircraft carrier Ural bomber Amerikabomber AEG helicopter...
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Wunderwaffe (section Aircraft carriers)
D – two additional proposed aircraft carriers of the Graf Zeppelin class. I (1942) – a planned 56,500 ton aircraft carrier, converted from a transport;...
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fleet, six H-class battleships, three O-class battlecruisers, twelve P-class panzerschiffe, and two Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers with two more...
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USS Hawaii (CB-3) (category Alaska-class cruisers)
as envisioned, would have looked similar to a completed Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier. The ship would have also been able to launch the JB-2 "Loon"...
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commissioned 1959 to 1964 Graf von Götzen: commissioned 1914 Graf Zeppelin: 28,000 ton Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier, launched 1938 but never completed...
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was extended further through the use of the airships as airborne aircraft carriers, with each capable of carrying a small squadron of airplanes that...
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German cruiser Seydlitz (redirect from German aircraft carrier Seydlitz)
became convinced of the necessity of acquiring aircraft carriers. Work on the purpose-built carrier Graf Zeppelin, which had been halted in April 1940, was...
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structure. A carrier-based aviation component was planned for the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, laid down in 1936, but lack of suitable aircraft, coupled...
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zeppelins but not built by Zeppelin are not included. The Zeppelin company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing...
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3.7 cm SK C/30 (category Naval anti-aircraft guns)
Type XIV submarines Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers Königsberg-class cruisers Leipzig-class cruisers M-class minesweepers PA-class patrol ships R boats...
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