A blimp caught fire and crashed near the U.S. Open at Erin Hills on Thursday, injuring the only person on board, the pilot. Multiple videos shared to Twitter show the blimp falling out of the sky.

L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off with two crewmen aboard. Many eyewitnesses spotted ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It was almost noon on August 6, 1942, when Ethel Appleton of Daly City, a suburb on the edge of San Francisco ...