WW2 - Hindenberg over Long Preston
The German airship the “Hindenberg” D-LZ129 (1931 – 1937) flew over Long Preston on the evening of May 22nd 1936 at 7.45pm following the line of the railway. It returned on June 3rd 1936, flying from S.W to N.W over the village in the early afternoon. It crashed on mooring at Lakehurst in America in May 1937.
The airship is believed to have been on a reconnaissance flight photographing the Settle to Carlisle railway. A wreath was dropped from it over the German Prisoner of War Cemetery in Keighley. A resident of Austwick, a schoolgirl at the time, recalled the local belief that Germany was planning to cut off the rail link between Edinburgh and London and infiltrate the country from Ribblehead.
The digital image can be found on the LPHG website.
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