The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly ...

On May 20, 1936, the world was awed by the Hindenburg. The German dirigible successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the United States in 78 hours and 27 minutes, one of 17 trans ...

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