Images of the Hindenburg burning while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey are among the most indelible in the history of mass media. But few people know that the huge ...
Last week the Navy’s sole surviving dirigible was walked out of her Lakehurst hangar, moored securely to her mobile mast.* Her tail was buckled to a flatcar mounted on a huge circular track, left ...
A windy clearing surrounded by a forlorn forest of scrub pines is the setting of the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. N. J. Above the plain looms a sombre hangar, home of the Navy’s Los Angeles and of ...