Originally Posted by
Green Flash
What Harry said. The Hindenburg(?) I think was also going to have Fw-190's as the fighter. I wonder if they would have gone with a jet also/instead?
Germany's first Carrier was named Graf Zeppelin, she was launched in 1938 but never completed for many reasons, not least passive aggressive opposition from Goering's Luftwaffe. She was intended to be the first of four, a second vessel was laid down (to be named Peter Strasser according to some reports) but eventually scrapped on the slip to divert resources into U Boat production. Graf Zeppelin was captured by the Soviets in Poland at the end of the war, and eventually sunk in the Baltic as a target in 1947.
The air group would have been a sqn of Bf-109T fighters, with extended wings that folded, and a sqn of JU-87C Stukas for both Dive and Torpedo Bombing, also with folding wings. The aircraft were built, but were just absorbed into the Luftwaffe. Ultimately we can thank Herr Goering for preventing the Kriegsmarine from acquiring any carriers; as commerce raiders they would have been a lot more effective than Battleships.