and the success of the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (built in Germany by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin as part of Germany’s war reparations to the USA)), the US Navy ordered the construction of two ...

the Navy’s short-lived USS Macon in 1933; above, a commercial passenger airship in 2014. U.S. Navy; Achim Mende / Zeppelin In the 1930s, before commercial airplanes began crossing the Atlantic ...