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US Serviceman Nunzio Antonio "Jim" Giambalvo reads an Armed Services Edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II. From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were ...
The fabric-clad rigid airships were given commissions, the same as warships. [1]USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) - served 1923-25, lost 3 September 1925 due to structural failure while in line squalls, 14 killed
2 TC-class blimps: older patrol ships built in 1933 for the US Army's airship operations. The US Navy had acquired TC-13 and TC-14 from the United States Army in 1938. 4 K-class blimps: K-2, K-3, K-4 and K-5 designed as patrol ships and built from 1938. Training Ships 3 L-class blimps: L-1, L-2 and L-3, produced as small training ships from 1938.
Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II.From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were published and printed by the Council on Books in Wartime (CBW) and distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
The Armed Services Editions brought high-end books to a mass audience, and helped popularize the emerging paperback format. [4] One of the most popular ASE books was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith, and the ASE's distribution of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby helped revive interest in the book. [5]
The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy.These blimps were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung under the envelope.
Haberstroh, Jack, ed. SWABBY: World War II Enlisted Sailors Tell It Like It Was (2003) recollections* Hoyt, Edwin. Now Hear This: The Story of American Sailors in World War II (1993) Sowinski, Larry. Action in the Pacific: As Seen by US Navy Photographers During World War 2 (1982) Wukovits, John F. Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington (2011)
When the United States entered World War II, the Navy took over the operation of Goodyear's five commercial blimps. These were the Resolute , Enterprise , Reliance , Rainbow , and Ranger . These airships were given the designations L-4 through L-8 even though their characteristics and performance varied among them.