Only 75 years ago Herbert Morrison gave the country it’s first taste of “live reporting” when his emotional account of the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg disaster was aired on WLS Chicago ...

I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. “Breakfast,” it read, “on board the airship ...

Explore the inside of the Hindenburg, the largest airship ever built, and witness the events leading up to its tragic accident in 1937. This video highlights the layout of the ship, including the A ...

Its grace over towns like Bournemouth and the hills of the Purbecks is one of Dorset's most incongruous visual footnotes.

As we near the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, the Smithsonian shares its discovery of the sole surviving map of the airship's final voyage. "Found: Letters from the Hindenburg," a ...

Describes the last voyage of the zeppelin, or airship, Hindenburg, which crashed in flames on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and examines some possible causes for the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of one letter, dated May 7, 1937, from Roger Laws to his wife Mildred Laws describing his experience guarding the ...

Airships - Why They Failed & The Hindenburg Disaster ...