Lakehurst Maxfield Field

Well, you know, we're not very far from the Hindenburg here.

Uh, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, that's probably about 10 miles from here.

Yeah.

And I, I joke there because obviously what we've seen over the past several weeks, several months, um, is the word unprecedented is thrown around- Mm ...

Oh, the humanity.

These were the famous words that echoed around the globe as radio reporter Herbert Morrison expressed his raw shock and horror on witnessing the terrible scenes at New Jersey's Lakehurst Naval Air Station on the 6th of May, 1937.

This was the day that the Hindenburg airship burst into flames as it neared the landing field, killing 13 passengers, 22 crew, and one member of the ground crew, including the director of flight operations, Ernst Lehman.

Morrison's recorded words were later added to the newsreel footage of the catastrophe, sound and vision that remain shocking today, 70 years after the event.

anyways, it was, yeah.

Next thing I get a call, Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

And now there's one, it's one big, huge mega station.

They could not perform guard duty 24 seven at Lakehurst.