GERMANY'S FIRST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER, the Graf Zeppelin, being launched at Kiel last month. She is of 19,250 tons, and will carry 40 aircraft as compared with H.M.S. Ark Royal's 70. Some German experts visualize her operating in the Atlantic in time of trouble. A second aircraft-carrier is now being constructed also at Kiel.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 7
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52GERMANY'S FIRST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER, the Graf Zeppelin, being launched at Kiel last month. She is of 19,250 tons, and will carry 40 aircraft as compared with H.M.S. Ark Royal's 70. Some German experts visualize her operating in the Atlantic in time of trouble. A second aircraft-carrier is now being constructed also at Kiel. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 7
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