Golden Journal Number 55: Flying Carriers

Several times a year, when we feel like it, the Golden Journal brings Gold Club members some fun extras for their Avalanche Press games. Our new-model Golden Journal features a “real” booklet, just like a small magazine, and a small set of die-cut, silky-smooth playing pieces.

In 1926, the U.S. Navy ordered a pair of huge rigid airships, with a unique feature: their own internal hangar, allowing them to operate aircraft. Akron and Macon served briefly with the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, respectively, before crashing at sea in 1933 and 1935. The Navy’s leading advocate for lighter-than-air flight, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, died in the wreck of the Akron.

That didn’t stop the Navy from asking for replacements in the 1937 budget, along with a new training ship, and from planning a much larger class of flying carrier, the ZRCV which would operate a squadron of dive bombers. But without Moffett’s skills at bureaucratic warfare to push them, the proposals would never take flight.

Flying Carriers is all about these majestic airships, with Akron and Macon, their proposed sister ships, the proposed ZRCV, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s large airship design, and still more. You get pieces and scenarios to use with both Second World War at Sea: Java Sea and Midway Deluxe Edition.

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