The USS Akron, The Great Air Travel Tragedy History Forgot
The USS Akron flying above the Manhattan skyline in the early 1930s. Long before there were jumbo jets and cruise ships ferrying people to every imaginable destination, there were airships. Huge, helium-filled, blimp-like aircraft were the cutting edge of transit technology nearly a century ago. Surely as Depression-era New Yorkers looked up and saw the