No discussion of airships -- blimps, in this case -- would be complete without a history of how they were developed as naval weapons. Actually, the first military use of "lighter-than-air" vehicles… ...

During World War II, the Houma area was unique due to the Naval Air Station located 3 miles south of town. ... The Navy finally discontinued the use of blimps in 1962.

Their quiet approach and vast field of view gave them a unique advantage, and by the war’s end, German submariners had come to fear the once-dismissed silhouette of a blimp trailing overhead.

But it was during World War II that the blimp had its finest hours. In a crash program, the Navy commissioned 168 blimps, sent them soaring sedately around the world to chase submarines and escort ...

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 War II “We tried to keep them in the air, particularly ...

At the Navy’s LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon.

ALOFT ON THE SANTOS-DUMONT — As it searches for ways to combat terrorism, the U.S. Navy is considering a conveyance from the past: blimps. A Honolulu-based firm has a $4-million contract to test ...

Navy airship L-8 was on routine patrol off the coast of San Francisco, searching for Japanese submarines in the Pacific Ocean. A few hours after its morning launch in 1942, the blimp floated back ...

A disaster cleanup crew picks up potentially toxic debris around a World War II-era blimp hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Calif., on Nov. 13, 2023.

It was almost midnight when the crew of the U.S. Navy airship noticed the German submarine off the coast of Key Largo 72 years ago. The patrol was like any other the night of July 18, 1943. Navy ...