The Hindenburg over Manhattan and Lakehurst, 1937
The silver airship with swastikas on its tail fins crosses Lower Manhattan and hangs above the mooring mast of Lakehurst.
The long silver hull of the airship glides over a coast and open water, the swastika painted on its upper and lower tail fins; it passes above the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan and the piers of the harbour; over the flat airfield at Lakehurst it hangs low before the latticed mooring mast while lines of ground crew wait across the field.
LZ 129 Hindenburg, one of the two largest airships ever built, had carried passengers across the Atlantic since 1936. On 6 May 1937, after a delayed crossing from Frankfurt, it circled over New York and reached Lakehurst in the evening, where thunderstorms held up the landing. Whether the aerial views all belong to that day is not certain.
