 After the "Hindenburg" was destroyed by fire in New Jersey in 1937 and the two "Graf" ships were broken up for scrap at Frankfurt in 1940, the vast hangar fell into disuse.In early 1943 it was dismantled and transported in sections on a specially laid track to a new location away in the industrial suburbs of Friedrichshafen, where it was reconstructed.British aerial reconnaissance of southern Germany at this time was mainly carried out by de Havilland Mosquito PR IV and PR VIII aircraft of No.