When German U-boats began ravaging shipping off the American coast in 1942, the U.S. Navy had too few specialized anti-submarine forces ready to respond. Into that gap came Goodyear built K-class ...

In the summer of 1942, the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area were already living on high alert due to the ongoing tensions of World War II. It is easy to imagine the collective confusion when a ...

L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off with two crewmen aboard. Many eyewitnesses spotted ...

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It was almost noon on August 6, 1942, when Ethel Appleton of Daly City, a suburb on the edge of San Francisco ...