Home » Military History » The Unsolved Mystery of the WW2 Navy Airship that Returned Without Its Crew

The Unsolved Mystery of the WW2 Navy Airship that Returned Without Its Crew

Unsolved Mystery of the WW2

On the morning of August 16th, 1942, the U.S. Navy airship L-8 departed Treasure Island to patrol the San Francisco coast for Japanese submarines. With two trained pilots aboard, it should have been a routine mission to fly 30-miles out into the Pacific to the Farallon Islands before completing a round trip around San Francisco Bay. After responding to a suspicious sighting, however, the airship returned to land. It crashed in the middle of an intersection, with the balloon falling on a car. In a mysterious twist, its two crew members were not onboard. They would never be found…

Credit Dark Docs

Please support our Sponsors here :