1. Zeppelin Letter. Frankfurt-New Jersey 1938, Graf Zeppelin stamped card.

Graf Zeppelin’s Last Flight

Hans von Schiller

Graf Zeppelin was over the Canary Islands on the last day of a South American flight from Brazil to Germany when it received news of the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey.  Captain Hans von Schiller withheld the news from his passengers, and told them of the disaster only after the ship’s safe landing in Germany.

Graf Zeppelin landed in Friedrichshafen on May 8, 1937, and never carried a paying passenger again. The ship made only one additional flight, on June 18, 1937, from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt, where she remained on display — all her hydrogen removed — until she was broken up on the orders of Hermann Goering’s Luftwaffe in March, 1940

Source : https://www.airships.net/lz127-graf-zepp...

Collection : XXVI Letters and Postcards