May 6, 1937 Hindenburg photos

[rrowdy]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/75-years-since-the-hindenburg-disaster/100292

 

[Meep-Meep]

My step dad's mother was in ear shot of the crash and remembered the news report very well. Great photos.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Maybe I'm too young to understand........and no offense meant to anyone just a question. But why would a Nazi airship even be allowed in American airspace to begin with? I've seen some of those pics before and always wondered.

 

[coronet500]

This happened well before the Nazi's were known to do such atrocities that they would become known for. They were kind pushing their weight around in eastern Europe, but hadn't pushed their way toward the west much. The US government didn't really know how to deal with or what to do with the out and out ignoring of the sanctions placed on them after WW1. Hitler and the Nazi's hadn't been in power very long at this point.

 

[Moparsmitty]

Hydrogen bad, helium good. Never a better example.

 

[Basket case]

thanks for sharing.

 

[RustyRatRod]

You mean similar to us lettin in Saudis to run airplanes into buildings? I think I understand now. Thankya.

This happened well before the Nazi's were known to do such atrocities that they would become known for. They were kind pushing their weight around in eastern Europe, but hadn't pushed their way toward the west much. The US government didn't really know how to deal with or what to do with the out and out ignoring of the sanctions placed on them after WW1. Hitler and the Nazi's hadn't been in power very long at this point.

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Oh the humanity.

 

[snakeyes]

thanks for sharing

 

[Richard Cranium]

I've had a 3rd degree burns complete with skin graft & it's something I wouldn't want to wish on anybody.

 

[Budnicks]

Maybe I'm too young to understand........and no offense meant to anyone just a question. But why would a Nazi airship even be allowed in American airspace to begin with? I've seen some of those pics before and always wondered.

it was 1937, a few years before we wanted to kill all of them...

 

[Jasoncoronet]

Exactly this was just a show off for the Nazis to show there power and there design abilities to the world. At this time the us had very little interaction with the nazi empire. We the US went to war in 1939 so that explains why they were here. This was very interesting I had to go and do some research myself.

 

[dam130af]

I've been to the airbase that is there getting some mods done to my C-130. Stood on the crash site. Awesome experience yet eerie.

 

[coronet500]

We the US went to war in 1939 so that explains why they were here. This was very interesting I had to go and do some research myself.

I believe we didn't enter the war until after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) After we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us and the fight was on.

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You mean similar to us lettin in Saudis to run airplanes into buildings? I think I understand now. Thankya.

Yup! I little like that.

Funny how history tends to repeat itself, isn't it? Yet, we never learn.

 

[Budnicks]

I believe we didn't enter the war until after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) After we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us and the fight was on.

we didn't officially declare an act of war against, get involved in WWII, before declaring an act of war against the Japanese until after the Dec. 7th 1941 @ Pearl Harbor debacle, FDR wanted us in the war much earlier, he thought it would be good for our failing economy of the time, especially after the Great Depression... but we/he didn't have a good enough reason supposedly, or the congress appropriations/support & funds... but the congress was on board after PH... there were a few American in WWII before the Japanese attack, mostly pilots in England fighting the Nazi's & China fighting the Japanese... but not the Defense Dept. officially involved in the war, until after 1941... It still took a while after Dec. 1941 still before we were full on, into the war... That's how I remember the history...

 

[71dodgechargerrt]

Thanks for the great pic;s

 

[Photon440]

Hydrogen bad, helium good. Never a better example.

The designers were aware of helium, but relied on 30 years of safe air travel with hydrogen. The Hindenburg was designed with helium in mind but supplies were unavailable. Almost all of the world's supply at the time was from the United States, and the Helium Control Act of 1927 forbade exporting helium to any other country. The Nazi party didn't even exist at the time this act came to being.

But what a way to travel! The luxury of an ocean liner with much better speed. Silent and smooth. The lounge even had a piano. I would have loved to have had the chance for a ride.

-=Photon440=-

 

[RustyRatRod]

Only two years before we went to war. Somehow, I think they were the enemy then...and even before. Much like Iran or North Korea now, yet you don't see their aricraft flyin overhead. That's the part I don't understand. We musta been more stupid back then.