In the summer of 1942, the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area were already living on high alert due to the ongoing tensions of World War II. It is easy to imagine the collective confusion when a ...
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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 ...
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 ...
A US military surveillance blimp operated by contractors near Laredo, Texas, broke free from its tether on Monday evening and later crashed in Mexico. The blimp did not carry a crew when in the air, ...
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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