A massive fire ripped through a historic blimp hangar at a former air base in Southern California, where several TV shows and movies have been shot, including “Pearl Harbor” and “Star Trek.” The blaze ...
A wood-supported hangar built in Tustin, California, to house surveillance blimps during World War II went up in smoke Tuesday. Its twin structure, however, remains standing, and no injuries were ...
The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...
The structure was built in 1942 to house blimps that patrolled the California coastline, watching for enemy submarines. By Eduardo Medina A fire on Tuesday destroyed a cavernous wooden blimp hangar in ...