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The US Navy’s flying aircraft carrier was real—and it didn’t end well
Summary and Key Points: A century ago, the U.S. Navy tested a startling idea: a “flying aircraft carrier.” -The rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon carried and launched tiny Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk ...
Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The USS ZRS-4 Akron crashed on April 4, 1933 about 20 miles off the New Jersey shore near Barnegat Light when the stern crashed on the sea during ...
“BERKELEYANS were afforded a brief glimpse of the huge Navy dirigible Akron at noon today when the big ship circled over the southern part of the city,” the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported May 13, ...
LAKEHURST, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert ...
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Akron airship disaster (4/4/1933). The three year old 785-foot dirigible plunged into the Atlantic Ocean killing 73 of the 76 crewmen just after midnight.
LAKEHURST — History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive ...
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