Post by oscsusnret on May 27, 2022 3:58:46 GMT
I would like to see a card for United States Airships during WWII, like Fleet Airship Wing One
Fleet Airship Wing One
Headquarters
Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
Squadrons
• ZP-12 at Naval Air Station Lakehurst
• ZP-15 at Naval Air Station Glynco
• ZP-14 at Naval Air Station Weeksville
• ZP-11 at Naval Air Station South Weymouth
Auxiliary Fields
Naval Air Station Brunswick, Bar Harbor, Maine, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Argentia, Newfoundland.
1942
2 January, The US Navy formed the ZP-12 patrol unit based in Lakehurst from the four K airships.
1944-45
The US Navy moved an entire squadron of eight Goodyear K-class blimps (K-123, K-130, K-109, K-134, K-101, K-112, K-89, & K-114) with flight and maintenance crews from Weeksville Naval Air Station in North Carolina to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco.[2] Their mission was to locate and destroy German U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Strait of Gibraltar where magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) was viable. Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft had been searching these waters but MAD required low altitude flying that was dangerous at night for these aircraft. The blimps were considered a perfect solution to establish a round-the-clock MAD barrier (fence) at the Straits of Gibraltar with the PBYs flying the day shift and the blimps flying the night shift.
1944
The first two K-class blimps (K-123 & K-130) left Naval Air Station South Weymouth on 28 May, flying to Argentia, Newfoundland, the Azores, and finally to Port Lyautey They completed the first transatlantic crossing by nonrigid airships on 1 June.
1945
The ZP-14 unit operating in the Mediterranean area from June 1944 completely denied the use of the Gibraltar Straits to Axis submarines. Airships from the ZP-12 unit took part in the sinking of the last U-boat before German capitulation, sinking U-881 together with destroyers Atherton and Mobery.
The blimps of USN Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, aka The Africa Squadron) also conducted mine-spotting and mine-sweeping operations in key Mediterranean ports and various escorts including the convoy carrying United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Yalta Conference in 1945.
General characteristics
Crew: 9–10
Length: 251 ft 8 in (76.73 m)
Diameter: 57 ft 10 in (17.63 m)
Volume: 425,000 cu ft (12,043 m3)
Useful lift: 7,770 lb (3,524 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-2 radials , 425 hp (317 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 78 mph (125 km/h, 68 kn)
Cruise speed: 58 mph (93 km/h, 50 kn)
Range: 2,205 mi (3,537 km, 1,916 nmi)
Endurance: 38 hours 12 minutes
Armament
1 × .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun
4 × 350 lb (160 kg) AN-Mk 47 depth charges
Fleet Airship Wing One
Headquarters
Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
Squadrons
• ZP-12 at Naval Air Station Lakehurst
• ZP-15 at Naval Air Station Glynco
• ZP-14 at Naval Air Station Weeksville
• ZP-11 at Naval Air Station South Weymouth
Auxiliary Fields
Naval Air Station Brunswick, Bar Harbor, Maine, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Argentia, Newfoundland.
1942
2 January, The US Navy formed the ZP-12 patrol unit based in Lakehurst from the four K airships.
1944-45
The US Navy moved an entire squadron of eight Goodyear K-class blimps (K-123, K-130, K-109, K-134, K-101, K-112, K-89, & K-114) with flight and maintenance crews from Weeksville Naval Air Station in North Carolina to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco.[2] Their mission was to locate and destroy German U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Strait of Gibraltar where magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) was viable. Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft had been searching these waters but MAD required low altitude flying that was dangerous at night for these aircraft. The blimps were considered a perfect solution to establish a round-the-clock MAD barrier (fence) at the Straits of Gibraltar with the PBYs flying the day shift and the blimps flying the night shift.
1944
The first two K-class blimps (K-123 & K-130) left Naval Air Station South Weymouth on 28 May, flying to Argentia, Newfoundland, the Azores, and finally to Port Lyautey They completed the first transatlantic crossing by nonrigid airships on 1 June.
1945
The ZP-14 unit operating in the Mediterranean area from June 1944 completely denied the use of the Gibraltar Straits to Axis submarines. Airships from the ZP-12 unit took part in the sinking of the last U-boat before German capitulation, sinking U-881 together with destroyers Atherton and Mobery.
The blimps of USN Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, aka The Africa Squadron) also conducted mine-spotting and mine-sweeping operations in key Mediterranean ports and various escorts including the convoy carrying United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Yalta Conference in 1945.
General characteristics
Crew: 9–10
Length: 251 ft 8 in (76.73 m)
Diameter: 57 ft 10 in (17.63 m)
Volume: 425,000 cu ft (12,043 m3)
Useful lift: 7,770 lb (3,524 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-2 radials , 425 hp (317 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 78 mph (125 km/h, 68 kn)
Cruise speed: 58 mph (93 km/h, 50 kn)
Range: 2,205 mi (3,537 km, 1,916 nmi)
Endurance: 38 hours 12 minutes
Armament
1 × .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun
4 × 350 lb (160 kg) AN-Mk 47 depth charges
