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A month later, the ZP-32 patrol unit was formed at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California from two TC and two L airships. An airship training base was also created at Moffett Field. The US Navy command, remembering the airship anti-submarine success from World War I, immediately requested new modern anti-submarine airships.
USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations.She was delivered to the United States Navy in October 1924 and after being used mainly for experimental work, particularly in the development of the American parasite fighter program, was decommissioned in 1932.
Naval Air Base San Pedro, NAS Terminal Island was a US Navy World War II 410-acre airfield on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California part of the City of Los Angeles.Before the Navy took control of the airfield, the airstrip was the civilian Allen Field.
The City of Wilmington is to the north of San Pedro with three docks that were part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island Los Angeles Harbor Light built in 1913, on the 2.11-mile San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1911, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island in World War II
The Beginning of Airships in the Bay Area, Beginning of Air Base Sunnyvale California. Looking at 1,700 acres of broccoli, cauliflower and hay fields, Laura Thane Whipple, a local real estate agent then selling a ranch in Sunnyvale, recalled reading of the need for a 'metropolitan area' dirigible base on the west coast. The photos she took the ...
The survey, which used deep-water uncrewed vehicles. Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine ...
The home port was Long Beach Naval Base, now Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Navy presence was so large that in 1932 nearly 50 ships of the Pacific Fleet anchored in its harbor.
In the background, Los Angeles, in front of it, (l to r) J-3 or 4, K-1, ZMC-2, in front of them, "Caquot" observation balloon, and in foreground free balloons used for training. US Navy airships and balloons, 1931