significantly more capable than any in service, these were the TC-13 and TC-14. When Army Airship operations were terminated in 1937, a number of Army blimps were transferred to the US Navy, but only two, the TC-13 and 14 were ever operated by the Navy. Unlike the Navy, the Army had failed during the post-World War I era to establish a definite mission, much less a comprehensive plan for accomplishing that mission, for its airships. By 1935, Congress was considering the elimination of funding for the Army airship program, and Chief of the Air Corps Major General Benjamin Foulois, who himself had been a pilot of the SC-1, was recommending the program be terminated. In mid-1937, the US Army's airship operations were officially ended. World War II As Congress refused to authorize further expenditures for Army airships but did allow funding of observation balloons, the army resurrected the "Motorized Observation Balloon" concept abandoned in the 1920s. The "Motorized Observation Balloon" continued in use for several more years. There were even new 'pony blimps' constructed. These were the five C-6, seven C-8 and four C-9 class airships. Two of the TE-3 class were re-designated C-7s. The last US Army airships were the two C-7s which were transferred to the Navy in 1943. Post - World War II Following World War II, the War Assets Administration put up for sale sixteen Motorized Observation Balloons of the C-6, 8 & 9 classes. One was briefly operated by the Douglas Leigh Sky Advertising Company between 1948 and 1950, the C-6-36-11 made its last flight on 14 June 1950. See also Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle High-altitude airship List of American Balloon Squadrons Footnotes References Allan, Hugh. The Story of the Airship (non-rigid)', Privately Printed, Akron, Ohio. Bilstein, Roger and Miller, Jay. Aviation in Texas, Texas Monthly Press, Austin, Texas, . DeVorkin, David H. Race to the Stratosphere, Springer-Verlag, New York, . Kaufmann J. E. and Kaufmann, H. W., Fortress America, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. Meyer, Henry Cord., Airshipmen Businessmen and Politics, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1991. Shock James R.. U.S. Army Airships 1908-1942, Atlantis Productions, Edgewater, Florida, 2002, Robinson, Douglas H., The Zeppelin in Combat, G.T. Foulis & Co Ltd., London, 1962. Robinson, Douglas H., Giants in the Sky, University of Washington Press., Seattle, 1973. Higham, Robin, The British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931, G.T. Foulis & Co Ltd., London, 1961. Shock James