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 a storm. This collection consists of a copy of the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Operating from U.S. Navy airships during the early 1930s, diminutive Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawks tested one of the more imaginative ideas in aviation history. Deployed with ...