Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, the album preserves historic high spots of the years between. Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph...
Clark entered the Navy in February, 1943 as a lieutenant and has been coaching swimming and football since. He has been stationed at Chapel Hill, N.C., Lakehurst, N.J., and Corpus Christi, Tex, as an instructor in Physical Education...
...feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage of the year for his eyewitness story of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst...
...Navy airships had collided and one had collapsed. Farther out, where no shore watcher could see, her control car and bag had tumbled crazily into the water. Only one enlisted man of her crew was rescued. The other airship, only superficially damaged, got safely back to the Lakehurst base...
...first blimp squadron has been operating since January from the first base: Lakehurst, N.J. A second base, at South Weymouth, Mass., is open. Operating squadrons will not base at either South Weymouth or Elizabeth City for a few weeks, until a stock of new blimps float in. The West Coast blimp squadron bases at Sunnyvale. Calif. Two more bases are to be constructed soon (Florida, Southern California); one more is contemplated in the Puget Sound area of Washington...