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Now at last we d be able to make good we d have vets from both sides of the action! Let em try to deny that! Not seeing Bill in the new roster, I asked our man in Mass., Fred Morin, to check on Bill Voda. That show was never finished, but I d checked in with Bill every so often to tell him we were still trying. I d arranged for Bill to tape with another Brit crew an interview at the Denver Reunion. NAA member William Voda was K-68 s ordinance man that fateful day. Not knowing how many people (even in NAA!) keep insisting only one airship ever saw a submarine, Tony called and told of his interview. Tony had called because the U-615 vet had told of an airship in the distance that kept allowing airplanes to find them. (K- 68 was then out of fuel and ditched on an island, but no one was lost.) Even that would fail to inspire a new investigation that maybe, just maybe, airships had more combat credentials than history lets on. Recently, member and U-boat researcher extraordinaire CAPT Jerry Mason uncovered and translated the German Command report for the action which brags that while the submarine was sunk, they took a whole bunch of airplanes and even an airship with them. The two references did not raise any eyebrows in our maintainstatus-quo activist members. The orbiting blimp allowed bomber airplanes to hone in on the U-615 and attack, rather than lose it again as they had in previous encounters. In my effort to chronicle previously obscured or classified combats between airships and subs, I d found two books that credited ZP-51 s K-68 as being the key to the sub s destruction. Tony s crew had interviewed a veteran of the U-615, a sub sunk by US forces. This Brit was different he is doing a show on the U-boat war in the Caribbean.

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It was another TV crew doing a show, but this time they didn t just want us to work for nothing finding free footage of the Hindenburg exploding to show hydrogen fireballs forming, as so often seems the case (see Media Watch). Our webmaster Mike Vinnarick had dutifully forwarded a routine request for information and I followed up by, prompting the phone call. Van Treuren, Box 700, Edgewater FL You can t imagine the roller coaster ride that began with Boeing s announcement - I was actually on my way to Chicago the next day - followed shortly by a phone call from merry old England. Lucie, FL Tel: NAMF Liaison - Mort Eckhouse NMNA Liaison Joe Hajcak Webmaster - Michael Vinnarick Technical Committee Chair Norman Mayer Small Stores - George W.

Whiting, NJ Tel: Secretary - Treasurer - Peter F. 1 Above: Filming This Man s Navy at NAS Moffett Field, California, The Naval Airship Association President - Herman G.

Oddly enough the press reported surface units capturing a drug smuggling submarine at sea elsewhere, releasing this photo: Who knows, someone in today s Chain of Command might read this magazine and realize LTA has been in ASW before why not again? All material contained in this newsletter represents the views of its authors and does not necessarily represent the official position of the Naval Airship Association, Inc., nor its officers or members. Handlers from Airship Management Services race toward Skyship 600 blimp as it prepares to touch down, arriving for six weeks of marine surveillance. 3 ISSUE # 79 FALL 2008 Editorial 2 President s Message 3 Treasurer s Strongbox 4 Membership Committee 5 Pigeon Cote 6 Pushing The Envelope 11 Cover Story 12 Boeing Announcement 13 High Altitude Airship 14 Shore Establishments th Anniversary 16 European Report 17 LTA Croix de Guerre 19 USN LTA France WWI 24 Media Watch 26 Short Lines 27 Black Blimp 31 Ready Room Lighter Side 32 On the Cover of TNB #79: US Navy and Coast Guard try out an airship to work border patrol from Key West.