Key Point: Had it been completed, the Graf Zeppelin could have thrown a wrench into Allied naval warfighting plans. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the ...
The around-the-world flight of the hydrogen-filled German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was one of the biggest news stories of 1929. The craft took off from Lakehurst, N.J., on Aug. 8, 1929, heading east ...