Position of German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin unknown according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 March 1942

Schiffbau, Schiffahrt und Hafenbau 15 January 1939

An item reported that according to the press the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was off the Norwegian west coast, however she seemed to be at Gdynia, Poland.(1)

Note

1. Contracted as the Flugzeugträger A on 16 November 1935, laid down by Deutsche Werke on 28 December 1936 as part of the Graf Zeppelin-class, launched on 8 December 1938, never completed, scuttled at Stettin in March 1945, salvaged by the Soviet Union in March 1946 and finally sunk during weapon tests north of Poland on 16 August 1947. Her wreck was found back on 12 July 2006.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 92 dated 12 March 1942.