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The Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin airships float above the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, with a large square and statue visible in the foreground. A German Zeppelin airship flies above several warships in Kiel Bay, Germany, during a World War I maneuver. Large airship Graf Zeppelin on the ground with crowds of people gathered below its nose and gondola, shown in a black-and-white photograph. The German Hindenburg zeppelin engulfed in flames and smoke as it explodes while docking at a mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - German Zeppelins: Terrorizing The British And RAF During WW1. Aug 29, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Counterpoint - The Zeppelin. Dec 20, 2025
Add new Web site: The National Archives - Zeppelin raids - The National Archives. Nov 12, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - The Zeppelin airship as a Business Tool in the Weimar Era (PDF). Jul 12, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Culture - The Zeppelin: Aboard �the hotel in the sky�. Jan 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Zeppelin History. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Postal Museum - Zeppelin and Airship Mail. Aug 30, 2023
Add new Web site: Globalsecurity.org - Graf Zeppelin. May 28, 2023
Add new Web site: 1914-1918 - International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Zeppelin (Airship). Feb 14, 2023
Removed media. Aug 12, 2021
Media added. Aug 24, 2018
Media added. Mar 29, 2017
Added video. Jun 08, 2015
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Zeppelins at War. Oct 19, 2012
Add new Web site: U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission - The Zeppelin. Oct 19, 2012
Add new Web site: First World War - Zeppelin. Oct 19, 2012
Article revised. Jun 16, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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