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marybourg

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4. My late DH, born in 1926, saw it pass overhead.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 6, 2024, 08:03 AM

May 2024

Don’t know exactly where he was living then- Bronx or Manhattan. During my childhood in the 1940’s there were large “blimps” flying and as they nosed over the edge of an apartment building, low and slow, they were terrifying.

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