Airships in the WWII era

[ThomasP]

I recently ran across a substantial amount of digitized documents at NASM relating to airships in the WWII period, for the US mostly but with some involving other nationalities. It is mostly covering the 1930s through just after WWII, but there are a few from WWI and a fiew from as late as 1955(?).

The documents cover many airship related subjects - from technical design, to general operating procedures, to wartime operational tactics and basing, to post-war studies on using airships for cargo lift.

The links below are near the end of the batch generated by my search criteria. If you start there you can go backward through the list for somewhere around a thousand records. A place to start a search at least.

"Report - unit histories of Fleet Airships, Atlantic & Fleet Airship Wing Thirty, 1942-1944 | George Henry Mills Collection (NASM.1994.0022, ref86) | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution"

"Digital Search Results | Query: "*" | page 2296 of 27913 results | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution"

 

[Snautzer01]

I get a forbidden. Darn.

 

[ThomasP]

Can you get onto the home page at NASM (National Air & Space Museum)? If you can get in via the home page, look for the "The George Henry Mills Collection".

 

[GTX]

FICTIONAL Story here:

Sentinel Empresses

Sentinel Empresses

beyondthesprues.com

A couple of teasers:

 

[Phrog Phlyer]

T ThomasP , Thanks for this link.
I have previously located the wartime history for ZP-14 squadron (attached), but not for either FASW-30 or 31.
Great find, thank you.

 

[Snautzer01]

Can you get onto the home page at NASM (National Air & Space Museum)? If you can get in via the home page, look for the "The George Henry Mills Collection".

But still forbidden. Oh well must be secret then.

 

[Phrog Phlyer]

But still forbidden. Oh well must be secret then.

Could your ISP be blocking a .edu? May not be your issue, but some members may have different issues based on their ISP, home country, web browser, computer OS, or any of many other variables.

Here is the file referenced by T ThomasP in PDF as downloaded from the site. The Smithsonian creates an awkward to use PDF to make if difficult to use the data give, as it is all images instead of text.

 

[Snautzer01]

Could your ISP be blocking a .edu

No. Darn it again. Anyway.. go Blimbs!

 

[Dimlee]

I was forbidden on the first attempt.
Then I put on a red, white and blue costume switched to the USA on my VPN and was allowed to enter the dungeon and see the treasure.