A short slide show telling the story of Hitler\'s aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin.

1. Without wings, the story of
Hitler’s aircraft carrier

2. The keel for this, the largest of Hitler’s
warships was laid in 1936.

3. When war came in 1939, Graf Zeppelin was
almost complete...

4. ...but lacking knowledge of carrier
operations, work on the carrier was put on
hold, the ship being taken under tow to Poland.

5. Graf Zeppelin would spend much of her war
exiled in Polish waters...

6. ...a belated decision in 1942 to finish the carrier
coming too late to influence events in the
Atlantic.

7. The fortunes of war had now turned against
Hitler’s navy...

8. ...one by one his surface fleet was
destroyed...

9. Graf Zeppelin’s destruction would come at
the hands of Soviet naval and air forces...

10. ...the ship sinking in the Baltic Sea.

11. Lost for 60 years beneath the cold dark
waters of the Baltic , Graf Zeppelin was
located in 2006, lying almost intact.

12. 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