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New Jersey air station where the Hindenburg crashed (1937)
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lakehurst
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Population (2000): 2522 Housing Units (2000): 961 Land area (2000): 0.922490 sq. miles (2.389237 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.089473 sq. miles (0.231735 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.011963 sq. miles (2.620972 sq. km) FIPS code: 37770 Located within: New ...
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There are a number of places named Lakehurst : Lakehurst, New Jersey . Lakehurst High School , a fictional school in Degrassi: The Next Generation Lakehurst Mall , a defunct shopping complex in Waukegan, Illinois Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst ...
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But this time, instead of just making a swing around the field and then dropping the parachutists, the pilot flew the airplane out to the ocean, and then over the beach from Asbury Park down to Point Pleasant, and then back and forth several times, until he apparently got the word on the radio and flew back to Lakehurst.
I can probably find Lakehurst all right, but it occurred to me that it would look a little odd to have a full bird colonel flying a mission like this.
The enormous dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station rose surrealistically from the sandy pine barren, dwarfing the eight or ten Navy blimps near it, and making the aircraft-including other R4Ds-parked on the concrete ramp seem toylike.
When, as he asked them to, the Lakehurst Control Tower telephoned to report that a Marine R4D out of Willow Grove had just requested landing permission, he felt the situation was well in hand.