INTENDED FOR THE GRAF ZEPPELIN BUT CARRIED BY STEAMER? A 1929 Jersey City Transatlantic Airmail to Basel Switzerland
By John Trosky
The first decades of the 20th century saw the dawn of a new age in mail transport, airmail. By the late 1920s the US Post Office Department had established many routes across the continental US to speed the transportation of mail. Transatlantic mail on the other hand remained the purview of the fast ocean steamer. It was only in 1927 that Lindbergh had finally conquered the Atlantic by aircraft.
