would have had a pretty good sense of just how big an explosion Clancy had in mind. Because that day, the Hindenburg, a German zeppelin that was famous the world over for ferrying the rich and ...

The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg ... New York Daily News covers the Hindenburg disaster on May 7, 1937. The cause of this disaster, the fourth on American soil, was either static or sparks ...

“She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy, and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin ... like on the Hindenburg that night. A ceremony commemorating the disaster will ...

The Zeppelin reached a maximum speed of 84 ... stadium in Berlin during the opening ceremony, according to The Hindenburg Disaster of 1937.On one of the propaganda tours, the ship dropped ...

LAKEHURST, N,J. (CBSNewYork) --On May 6, 1937, a German zeppelin called the Hindenburg met its fate in Lakehurst, New Jersey -- when the tail end of the gigantic aircraft caught fire and crashed ...

The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner ... and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin was nearly on the ground.” His mother and older brother ...

The event became known as “the Hindenburg disaster.” Page used a picture of that crash for Led Zeppelin’s debut album cover. To this day, you can find dozens of photos of the Hindenburg’s ...

Werner Gustav Doehner, the last survivor of the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster in 1937, died Nov. 8 in Laconia, New Hampshire, a family member said. He was 90. >> Read more trending news Doehner ...

Two scorched relics from the infamous New Jersey disaster -- the Hindenburg -- have been sold ... when the great German Zeppelin exploded in air and fell to earth as a fiery wreck in Lakehurst.

But the Hindenburg's fiery demise wasn't the first or only airship disaster. It wasn't even the deadliest one. In fact, although the blaze turned the 800-foot-long (245 meters) zeppelin into a ...

“She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy, and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin was nearly ... victims of the Hindenburg disaster.AP His sister died early in ...

Although previous airship disasters had not dented public support for Zeppelin travel, the Hindenburg was the first such disaster caught on film. As a result, millions of people in Europe and ...