OLD PHOTOS: Lakehurst Naval Air Station

From Ocean County, Four Centuries in the Making, by Pauline S. Miller:

"The Navy bought the Army Training School, Camp Kendrick, in 1919. Experts were sent to study air currents, weather and other environmental conditions for the proposed establishment of a lighter-than-air base ... Upon completion, the world's largest hangar and the first built in America stood 224 feet hght, 966 fee long and 350 feet wide. The Lakehurst Naval Air Station was commissioned in June 1921."