CONTENTS

        Preface

        Acknowledgments

        Introduction

    Establishing an Air Station

    The USS Shenandoah and the Early Years

    The USS Los Angeles: Training and Experimentation

    The USS Akron and USS Macon

    Lakehurst: International Airport

    Preparations for War

    The War Years

    Postwar Progress

    End of the Program

        Afterword

        Appendices

            A    Commanding Officers, NAS Lakehurst (1921–62)

            B    Performance and Other Data for U.S. Navy Airships (1915–61)

            C    U.S. Navy Lighter-Than-Air Headquarters and Facilities, Second World War

            D    Memorandum on Status of Lighter-Than-Air (1959)

            E    Postwar Airship Deliveries to the U.S. Navy (1952–60)

            F    Last Airships in the U.S. Navy Aircraft Inventory

        Notes

        Selected Bibliography

        Index