Shorpy Home Front Photos: Lighter-Than-Air Craft and Hangar

June 14, 2016  NAVAL GAZERS: 1943.  January 1943.  "A blimp of the U.S. Navy is led onto the apron of an East Coast lighter-than-air station before taking off on a patrol over the Atlantic Ocean."  OWI

Comment:  Looks like the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).

Comment:  The hanger was built for the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles.  Th hangar was 966 feet long, 350 feet wide and 224 feet high with a floor area of 211,434 square feet and both airships could be in there side-by-side.

The hangar could shelter six of the K Type blimps shown in the picture.

--GreGen