It was dark

not far away when Untellayman steered his Zeppelin airship passed the cathedral of Our Lady.

Until recently, the sighting of an airship would have attracted great crowds.

But tonight, people were huddled in their homes,

and the only spectators were the military night watch list.

The low hum of the engine and the sound of the propellers were barely audible at ground level.

But the people below would soon be alerted to the presence of the airship

and the most horrifying man possible.

The only... Buildings were destroyed and 10 people were killed as Lehman's crew dumped a crude rack of explosives and incendiary devices off the Zeppelin. Under the hate convention of Excellives and Incendery Devices of Zeplo.

Under the hate convention, the people of Antwerp

had been subjected to a war crime.

But in the late summer of 1914, this event, while eye catching as the first aerial bombardment of civilians,

was a minor detail when compared to even more heinous acts that occurred during the so-called rape of Belgium.

Two decades later,

Ernst Leemann would make bigger headlines when another airship he was on, one in very different

circumstances was also involved in a scene of death and devastation.

In this episode I explored the Hindenburg disaster, an event that is much

more complicated and a simple mishap.

It's a tale of ingenuity, political pressure, ambition, full-heartedness,

miraculous survival and tragic loss of life.

On the 5th of May 1937, radio journalist Herbert Morrison and sound engineer

Charles Nelson of WLS radio flew from Chicago on an American Airlines flight that took them to Lakehurst Naval

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