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Photo #: NH 57961

Airship Hindenburg disaster, 6 May 1937


Bureau of Air Commerce Board and advisors at the official investigation of the burning of the Hindenburg. Taken at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 27 May 1937.
Seated at the small table in center are, left to right: R.W. Schroeder; Colonel South Trimble, Jr. (Chairman); and Dennis Mulligan.
Technical advisors seated at the large table behind them are, left to right: Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, USN; Gill R. Wilson; Colonel R.B. Lincoln, U.S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel C. de F. Chandler; and Colonel H.E. Hartney.
Stated at right are, left to right: G.C. Lovening, Frederick Hoffman, Dr. Hugo Eckener and Ludwig Dürr.

Photograph received from the Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, 16 June 1937.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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25 February 2003