Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany's first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities. -Designed ...

Erich Raeder had high hopes for the Graf Zeppelin. He originally wanted the carrier to house anywhere between 50 to 60 reconnaissance planes and boast a complement of eight 8-inch guns.

Germany laid down its first carrier in December 1936, and launched the Graf Zeppelin two years later. It would never enter service, however: disputes between the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ...

While throwing a big middle finger at the Versailles Treaty and all its sanctions, work began on a new breed of German warship, the Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier. With four planned for ...

Graf Zeppelin after its launch on December 8, 1938. US Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation Aircraft carriers were a centerpiece in Germany's pre-war naval rearmament program.

The Polish navy on Thursday said it has found a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea that it believes with 99.9 percent certainty was Germany's only aircraft carrier during World War II and which ...

A Polish oil firm working in the Baltic Sea has found the remains of the "Graf Zeppelin," Hitler's first -- and last -- aircraft carrier. The ship sank for good sometime after World War II, but ...

The Return of the 'Graf Zeppelin' First Sonar Images of 'Nazi Aircraft Carrier' New sonar images and photographs of the gigantic wreck discovered in the Baltic Sea suggest it is indeed that of ...