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Without wings, the story of Hitler’s aircraft carrier
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The keel for this, the largest of Hitler’s warships was laid in 1936.
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When war came in 1939, Graf Zeppelin was almost complete...
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...but lacking knowledge of carrier operations, work on the carrier was put on hold, the ship being taken under tow to Poland.
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Graf Zeppelin would spend much of her war exiled in Polish waters...
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...a belated decision in 1942 to finish the carrier coming too late to influence events in the Atlantic.
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The fortunes of war had now turned against Hitler’s navy...
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...one by one his surface fleet was destroyed...
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Graf Zeppelin’s destruction would come at the hands of Soviet naval and air forces...
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...the ship sinking in the Baltic Sea.
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Lost for 60 years beneath the cold dark waters of the Baltic , Graf Zeppelin was located in 2006, lying almost intact.
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To read more about the coming expedition to the wreck site and the subsequent exploration of the Graf Zeppelin follow my blog at: www.withoutwingsonline.co.uk