1923 will be remembered as a year when the world’s newspapers focused on Ocean County, N.J. – not because of a shipwreck or other tragedy, but as a center for aviation.
In the middle of the Pine Barrens, formerly a secret site where the Russian and U.S. governments perfected poison gas for warfare, a giant hanger was constructed. Starting in 1922, the Navy began to use the hanger as the location for the assembly of the nation’s first U.S.-built giant dirigible, the ZR-1.
On Jan. 1, 1923 the International News Service told its readers, “A great rigid dirigible airship designed to regain…
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