OSKAR FINK WAS THE HELMSMAN OF THE ZEPPELINS LZ-127 GRAF ZEPPELIN AND LZ-130 GRAF ZEPPELIN II.
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Zeppelinheim, May 6 1977
Dear Mr. Miller,
On the 40th anniversary of the serious Hindenburg accident on May 6,1937
We had a memorial service today and I thought of you too.
I noticed that I haven't received a message from you for a long time. For the Christmas holidays, I sent you a Zeppelin book that was recently published. Today I just want to ask you if you didn't get this book? I think you would have answered me?
Here in Zeppelinheim we opened a Zeppelin museum on March 5th of this year. Some of your exhibits have been brought into this museum, such as:
the photo with the warship and the two blimps on U Boots = search, or the hend with the blimps, the pictures of the LZ127 in the Lakehurst hall, the commemorative medal 50 years of Lakehurst and the special stamp from there, as well as the small Hindenburg model in Hong Kong, which even attracted attention from the owners of the former airship building Zeppelin. The Hindenburg's bow lamp is also in this museum like the clock from the navigation room, as well as some small parts of an engine, as well as the brochures and advertising trailers you sent me from the Hindenburg film based on the book "The Hindenburg" by the writer Mooney. At the inauguration of this museum, over three hundred people were present, including the descendant of Count Zeppelin with the name Count Brandenstein-Zeppelin, with his family, as well as his sister, then also the first officer XXXX of the "Hindenburg" and later commander of the LZ 130 captain Albert Sammt, who was also injured in the accident, appeared at the opening, and the general of the Rhein-Main Airport from the US Air Force was also there, so as you can see, everyone had their rank and name.So now I want to close for today and I hope to get a message from you again, because I would be very sorry if you hadn't received the book in question.
Until then, I warmly greet you as a friend
Oskar Fink
Neue Adresse: Oskar Fink, Falltorweg 12
Zeppelinheim
6078) Neu-Isenburg
West- Deutschland
STAMPED ON THE LOWER RIGHT FRONT:
Oskar Fink
6078 - ZEPPELINHEIM
FALLTORWEG 12
WEST GERMANY
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.