RARE! GRAF ZEPPELIN (HELMSMAN) OSKAR FINK AUTOGRAPHED TYPED LETTER OCT. 12, 1975

Description: ORIGINAL! RARE! GRAF ZEPPELIN (HELMSMAN) OSKAR FINK AUTOGRAPHED TYPED LETTER OCTOBER 12, 1975 RARE! GRAF ZEPPELIN (HELMSMAN) OSKAR FINK AUTOGRAPHED TYPED TWO SIDED LETTER DATED ; OCTOBER 12, 1975 . OSKAR FINK WAS THE HELMSMAN OF THE ZEPPELINS LZ-127 GRAF ZEPPELIN AND LZ-130 GRAF ZEPPELIN II. (ROUGHLY) TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN TYPED AUTOGRAPHED MESSAGE TO AN AMERICAN RESEARCHER WHO WAS AN ADMIRER AND PHILANTHROPIST OF THE ZEPPELIN-MUSEUM IN ZEPPELINHEIM, GERMANY : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zeppelinheim, October 12, 1975 Dear Mr. Bud Miller! Of course, I have long since received your letter dated July 3, 1975, for which I thank you very much. Unfortunately I couldn't give you an answer earlier because, firstly, I didn't speak English and had to have your valuable letter translated first, and in the meantime I was on holiday and, as it happens, I didn't think about the letter straight away After I wrote this, the picture I wanted wasn't available again, so I had to look for it again, and so it happened that I only got everything I wanted *&** together today. I sincerely apologize Mr. Miller for this delay. I got your two envelopes signed by some comrades let. As you will see, Adolf Fischer was a machinist on the LZ 129 "Hindenburg" and was involved in the accident in Lakehurst, where he was also injured. Albert Thasler was the driving engineer on the LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" and belonged to the transfer of the LZ 126 (ZR III) to America for the occupation, the others were crew members of the LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" and were deployed in South American service. Now I would like to make a few comments about myself. As the airship LZ 126, the later ZR III over Germany his sample= He also came via the Württemberg town of Schwäbisch Hall, where my parents lived at the time and where I was still an apprentice. When I saw this airship, I couldn't let go of the idea that I would one day work at airship construction in Friedrichshafen. When the construction of a new airship became known after the Zeppelin corner collection, I applied for a position in Zeppelin airship construction , and I was lucky enough to stay there. At first I worked in assembly, where I took part in the entire construction of the LZ 127, then I joined the maintenance team. From 1935 I was part of the crew of the LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin I", which carried out the South American service and was stationed in Friedrichshafen. After the Hindenburg accident, I came to Frankfurt/Main. In 1938 the LZ 130 "Graf Zeppelin II" was put into service where I also continued to work as a helmsman. Aviation was stopped at the start of the war in 1939, and the halls in Frankfurt were blown up by the German Wehrmacht after the two airships had previously been demolished. So much for my work in airship travel. In 1971 I was with Klaus Pruss, whom you mentioned, at the 50th anniversary celebration in Lake Hurst. I got to know his father Max Pruss while I was driving. Now I would like to add a souvenir from aviation a button from the former uniform in blue (black) and a button from the former tropical uniform in white (gold), plus a picture of me as a 3-man helmsman, with 5 other comrades at the Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro (South America). I now hope that I have complied with your wishes. As I said at the beginning, I can't speak English, but since there are so many Amaricans in Germany, your Mil= If you serve military service, it shouldn't be difficult for you to translate this letter. Finally, I would like to thank you again for the medal and the special stamp on the occasion of 50 years of the transfer of the ZR III. I hope that we can get to know each other in person, but unfortunately I don't have much time for that anymore since I'm already 68 years old, although I have a granddaughter married to an American in Boston. For today I would like to greet you warmly and I hope that you Don't be too upset about the long time you had to wait. Enclosed; 2 letterheads Oskar Fink v 2 buttons 1 picture Abs. Oskar Fink, 6078 ) Zeppelinheim Deutschland Falltorweg 12---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE WITH FOLD LINES AND SOME VERY LIGHT HANDLING FROM ITS 49+ YEARS. DIMENSIONS: 8 3/16" x 11 9/16" THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY. PLEASE SEE MY 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated from 1928 to the most successful airship ever built. LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II was the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars. The Graf Zeppelin II was virtually identical to the Hindenburg, and was originally designed to use hydrogen as lifting gas. It was built to replace the aging LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin on the South American transatlantic route while the Hindenburg would continue flying the North American route. LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei). The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937, while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey of its 2nd season of service. 36 people were killed in the horrifying crash, shocking the world and sealing the fate of airship travel forever. For decades, the exact cause of the Hindenburg’s crash has remained a mystery. Now, recently discovered letters, maintenance reports and company memos reveal the unfortunate errors that led to the disaster. More than 80 years later, experts suspect that, had critical construction flaws been fixed at the time, the airship might not have exploded.

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