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The blimp that flew for hours with no one aboard
On August 16, 1942, US Navy blimp L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island on an anti-submarine patrol after reports of Japanese activity off the California coast. The crew radioed once, reporting an oil ...
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The ghost blimp - The WW2 Navy airship that came back without its crew
On August 16, 1942, Navy airship L-8 left Treasure Island to patrol the San Francisco coast for Japanese submarines. After ...
Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted off for what might have been the ...
L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off with two crewmen aboard. Many eyewitnesses spotted ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It was almost noon on August 6, 1942, when Ethel Appleton of Daly City, a suburb on the edge of San Francisco ...
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