Lighter than Air

I read the other day that dirigibles had again appeared at Lakehurst, N.J.- I had thought that they never went away.  It brought to mind the following excerpt from "The Eagle Blue Chronicles" of Feb. 3, 2006 #2 as follows:
Captain Yarborough was a senior U.S. Lines Master who was on shoreside assignment whom I met in the company cafeteria in Cranford, N.J. He told me about an eastbound Atlantic crossing on the passenger ship S.S. WASHINGTON circa 1937 where he was a deck officer - New York to Europe - daylight hours - when an excited cry came from the forward lookouts. There was something approaching dead ahead. He put his glasses on it and saw it was the HINDENBURG airship flying very low and passed over his vessel enroute to Lakehurst, N.J.  Max Schmeling took that route when he came to fight Joe Louis which were all prior to its fateful fire and burning at Lakehurst within the next months. unquote.
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