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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 52770

USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)


Five of the airship's officers, all of whom were killed when she crashed on 3 September 1925.
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, some time prior to the tragedy, and published in the "Evening Star", Washington, D.C., Friday, 4 September 1925.
Those present are (left to right);
Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, Commanding Officer;
Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock, Jr., Executive Officer;
Lieutenant John B. Lawrence;
Lieutenant Arthur R. Houghton; and
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edgar W. Sheppard.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 December 2002