Developed during WW1, a blimp is a floating airship without an internal supporting framework, or a keel. More info
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That's a dirigible, not a blimp. It's one of the handful the US Navy had in the twenties and early thirties, used as scouts for the fleet and even as flying aircraft carriers (they could stow small fighters in the airship and a hook arrangement was used to launch and recover them). One met a violent end in the Atlantic in 1933 with heavy loss of life and the last one crashed off the California coast in '35. This card is circa 1932, not 1940.
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That's a dirigible, not a blimp. It's one of the handful the US Navy had in the twenties and early thirties, used as scouts for the fleet and even as flying aircraft carriers (they could stow small fighters in the airship and a hook arrangement was used to launch and recover them). One met a violent end in the Atlantic in 1933 with heavy loss of life and the last one crashed off the California coast in '35. This card is circa 1932, not 1940.
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