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Airships at Lakehurst Naval Air Station photographs, 1929-1938
(1) Photograph depicts men and women, including Naval officers, approaching the U.S. Navy L-1. L-Class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. U.S. Navy L-1 was delivered in April 1938 and operated from the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lake...
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| Collection: | Philadelphia Record photograph morgue (#V07) |
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| Date: | 1938, 1929-08-04, 1929-08-04 |
| Location: | Route 547 Lakehurst, NJ USA 08733 |
| Call Number: | V7:1603-1605 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | ACME |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/5775 |
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(1) Photograph depicts men and women, including Naval officers, approaching the U.S. Navy L-1. L-Class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. U.S. Navy L-1 was delivered in April 1938 and operated from the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J. (2) Aerial photograph of the German blimp Graf Zeppelin as it flies over a Lakehurst hangar before making a journey to New York City from New Jersey. Graf Zeppelin was a passenger-carrying airship, which operated commercially from 1928-1937. The airship made 590 flights covering more than a million miles before it was retired at a Frankfurt airport and deflated. (3) Photograph depicts the German blimp Graf Zeppelin hovering over hangar in Lakehurst, N.J. |
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