miscellaneous

DIRIGIBLES

Many thanks to Kees Kort for

his clarifications and comments.

Headquarters Balloon Detachment, Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Hauling down Good Year M. 33 Oct. 1917

NARA165-WW-66C-003

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165 : Ballons

Military balloon, or airship, flying over a field where soldiers are standing.

undated – APA

Source of Photograph: World War I

in Ohio Collection at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization

Kees Kort comments

This is German Parseval airship sold and delivered to the RNAS [Royal Navy Air Service) in 1913.

The specific type was PL 18, where PL is the abbreviation for Parseval Luftschiff / Parseval Airship.

Their 18th unique model.
The PL 18 was taken in service as Naval Airship

No. 4.

It continued in service till 1917, the main task to patrol the Channel, looking out for submarines.

British war balloon, purchased from Germany, near it's hangar – APA

Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection

at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization

An American Astra Torres dirigible being prepared

for Franklin Roosevelt, Asst. Sec. Navy, to take a ride

1918

NARA165-WW-64C-016

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165 Ballons - in the theatre of operations.

German observation balloon

Photograph shows a German observation balloon during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Bain News Service, publisher

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Airship "Viktoria Luise" and hangar at Oos, Germany,

Sept. 11, 1914

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Observation balloon -- U.S.A.

Photograph shows an observation balloon ready to be launched over German trenches

in Europe in World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)