Louisiana has a lot of pretty wild stories, but did you know that the U.S. Navy once accidentally dropped a bomb on a town in ...

Balloonatics. The nonrigid blimps seemed doomed to the same fate. At the outset of World War II, the Navy had only six bloopy bags in service, and the few enthusiasts who manned them were called ...

Like many conflicts, World War II brought with it an urgent need ... of which made them ideal for patrol operations. The Navy assembled 12 blimps requisitioned from private companies.

It’s a little known story of the “other silent service.” Wings, insignias and pictures. Keepsakes for 99-year-old Ray Brooks of Henderson, one of the last remaining U.S. Navy blimp pilots from World ...

blimp airships once played a vital role in World War II by hunting German U-boats over the Atlantic. In 1942, faced with escalating submarine threats and limited options, the US Navy deployed six ...

The Navy assembled 12 blimps requisitioned from private companies. One, the L-8, was a blimp made by tire company Goodyear for promotional purposes. (The brand had been making them since the 1920s ...

It was originally built in 1942 to store large blimps that the U.S. Navy used to patrol the southern California coastline for enemy submarines during WWII. The fire elicited a strong reaction from ...

They had simply fallen out of the blimp. Illustration by Meilan Solly ... routine surveillance mission in the early months of World War II and ended in a mystery that remains unsolved after ...

The wooden hangars were originally built in 1942 to store large blimps that the U.S. Navy used to patrol the southern California coastline for enemy submarines during WWII. The buildings were ...

The Navy has pumped over $123 million into the clean-up of a World War II anti-submarine blimp hangar in Southern California destroyed by fire a year ago. Workers for the Navy have hauled away ...