Posted on Aug 21, 2020
The Unsolved Mystery of the WW2 Navy Airship That Returned Without Its Crew
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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...
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So say one pilot was having an affair with the other’s wife....murder suicide?
Since it was S.F., a lovers leap thing as the “closet” had been opened?
Truth or Dare gone wrong?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who jumped but drowned before pick up by the Japanese sub?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub then executed as Yankee dogs?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub and used the gold reward for everyone to settle on a Pacific island with the native girls after all theIr young men went off to war?
Since it was S.F., a lovers leap thing as the “closet” had been opened?
Truth or Dare gone wrong?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who jumped but drowned before pick up by the Japanese sub?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub then executed as Yankee dogs?
Japanese sympathizers with defense secrets who got picked up by the Japanese sub and used the gold reward for everyone to settle on a Pacific island with the native girls after all theIr young men went off to war?
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