"As LTA's most senior officer, and the one who set the stage for airship ops in the 2nd World War, VADM Charles E. Rosendahl became an avid student of the contact and action reports, the war diaries, and the unit histories of the dozen or so Atlantic Fleet Blimp squadrons that had come into being. He critically examined this documentation, collecting it in an archive at Lakehurst.

This book is partly Rosendahl's synopsis and interpretation of those documents. It is also, in part, his personal recollection of his own role and participation in the wartime airship program....."

Part of a review by J. Gordon Vaeth, LT, USNR (Ret.)