Doing some more digging (thanks Wikipedia), it's definitely not hangar 1...

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May 29, 2020
3:58:26pm

NavyCougar Contributor

Doing some more digging (thanks Wikipedia), it's definitely not hangar 1...

Hangar 1 had clamshell doors and two tracks on the floor, not the one centered like you see.

So probably hangar 2 or 3...which were only finished in '42, so still fairly new as of '44.

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_One_(Mountain_View,_California)

Moffett Field airship hangars

There are three historic airship hangars at Moffett Field, in Mountain View in the southern San Francisco Bay Area, California. Hangar One (built 1931/2) is based on a structure of steel girders, while Hangars Two and Three (built 1941/2) are of wood. They are among the world's largest freestanding structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Field_airship_hangars

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Such a cool photo from 1944. The industrial output at that time was staggering.

Emmett Fitz-Hume

5/29/20 3:35pm

Amazing. Do you know where the photo was taken? That hanger is enormous.

slappy

5/29/20 3:38pm

My bet is one of the old airship hangars at Moffett Field, CA

NavyCougar

5/29/20 3:41pm

The Naval Institute didn't say, but I think you're correct.

Emmett Fitz-Hume

5/29/20 3:50pm

Doing some more digging (thanks Wikipedia), it's definitely not hangar 1...

NavyCougar

5/29/20 3:58pm

Although, same design was used at Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station Santa Ana...

NavyCougar

5/29/20 4:08pm

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Abe Froman

5/29/20 3:42pm

It's a USN photo. I get them in a FB feed from the U.S. Naval Institute.

Emmett Fitz-Hume

5/29/20 3:50pm

It is a cool photo, but it's kind of sad to think that so many planes were

chilango

5/29/20 3:43pm

It is amazing what our fighter jets do these days compared to those.

WJCougar

5/29/20 4:41pm

And how many were destroyed after the war. It would be nice to own one Corsair 🙂

ArcticKat

5/29/20 8:56pm

US may have lost the war if it wasn't for Henry Ford. He revolutionized

Cougarclaw

5/29/20 5:32pm

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