The Hindenburg airship is most closely associated with the disaster that took place on May 6, 1937, but before tragedy struck, it spent a short but notable life in service, transporting passengers ...

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans-Atlantic ...

Images of the Hindenburg burning while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey are among the most indelible in the history of mass media. But few people know that the huge ...

Around 86 years ago, a German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster still resonates, thanks to newsreel footage and the dramatic recording made by radio broadcaster ...