This is the final part in this series.
The crash of the airship USS Shenandoah in September 1925 rocked Ocean County, its home base. It was reported it had made 40 children orphans.
On the 4th of the month the survivors returned to Lakehurst by train, The United Press covered the reunion.
“Scarred and bruised still in their dungarees, some (were) without hats as they stepped off here at 9:55 AM to be greeted by a crowd of more than 1,000 relatives and friends.
“It was a terrible greeting. Women and children, many of them having lost their husbands and fathers in the disaster,…
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