During World War II Navy airships escorted over 89,000 merchant ships. Not one of these vessels was sunk or damaged by a German U-boat. Airships flew under all weather conditions. They were dependable and effective in anti-submarine wartime operations. After the war Navy airships flew air-sea rescue, hunter-killer operations from aircraft carriers, and early warning missions with great success until June 1962 when the Navy's lighter-than-air activities were terminated. Wasn't I the Lucky One with 45 photographs presents a first hand, on-the-scene, account of this period by the author, a former Navy combat airship commander.
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As a young Naval Airship Aviator, John Fahey was a combat airship command pilot during World War II. After the war he flew airships in hunter-killer operations from aircraft carriers. His flight crew was the first to be qualified in airship night carrier landings. A Russian linguist during the Cold War, he was assigned to the Russian army as an American Liaison Officer behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany and played a key role in the Berlin Wall crisis.
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