Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: LZ 129 Hindenburg, Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage, Led Zeppelin, Focke-Wulf Fw 200, Junkers Ju 52, The Hindenburg, Charles Emery Rosendahl, Junkers Ju 86, Hindenburg class airship, Junkers Ju 90, Dornier Do 18, Herbert Morrison, Hindenburg: The Untold Story, Junkers G.38, Ernst A. Lehmann, The Never War, Junkers Ju 160, Led Zeppelin European Tour 1970, List of passengers and crew aboard the final flight of LZ 129 Hindenburg, List of airworthy Ju 52, Focke-Wulf A 38, Junkers Ju 60, Focke-Wulf A 32, Focke-Wulf A 33. Excerpt: The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 people died. There was one additional fatality on the ground. The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era. Post card carried on the D-LZ129 "Hindenburg" on its last flight and dropped enroute over Cologne (The Cooper Collections)After opening its 1937 season by completing a single round trip passage to Rio de Janeiro in late March, the Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt on the evening of May 3rd on the first of its 10 round trips between Europe and the United States scheduled for its second year of commercial service. The United...