Army & Navy: In the Fog

Near Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast, duck hunters lay in fogbound blinds and listened to the stodgy thrum of two blimps plowing through the overcast. Then they heard a ripping crash. Through the fog, wreckage dripped down into the sea.

Above them the two Navy airships had collided and one had collapsed. Farther out, where no shore watcher could see, her control car and bag had tumbled crazily into the water. Only one enlisted man of her crew was rescued. The other airship, only superficially damaged, got safely back to the Lakehurst...

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