US Navy Airships USS Akron and USS Macon

The United States Navy rigid airships U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon were designed for long-range scouting in support of fleet operations. They were built as airborne aircraft carriers, and each ship carried up to three F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk scouting biplanes which could be launched and recovered in flight. These pictures of the airhips Akron and Macon are from my collection of zeppelin postcards. All images are from original postcards, contemporary to the period, and all black & white images are actual photographic ("real photo") postcards.

U.S.S. Akron at low mooring mast

Akron or Macon over S.S. Manhattan

U.S.S. Akron

U.S.S. Akron in shed

U.S.S. Akron under construction

U.S.S. Akron under construction

LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin

LZ-129 Hindenburg

U.S.S. Los Angeles

U.S.S. Shenandoah

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