A some what related airship story happened one evening at a Civil Air Patrol senior member meeting in the mid 1970s. The hangar flying turned to airships and blimps. Although most there were pilots and some were WW2 pilots, this one member who had worked at Consolidated, before and through out the war, was not a pilot. He often came with his youngest son, about 16. When the talk about airships was going well, the Dad commented that when the USS Shenandoah crashed in Ohio, his father took the Family the next Sunday to see it. When he said he still had a piece of a gas bag in the attic, his son shouted "You never told ME". An example of lack of communication between father and son.