The Hindenburg disaster, May 6, 1937. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst trying to dock with its mooring mast at the Naval Air Station Lakehurst, Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States of America. From These Tremendous Years, published 1938.

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