Sunday, May 6, 2007

70th year anniversary of the Hindenburg Fire

Memories! This is May 6, 2007 - I just read (in the Modesto Bee of Modesto, Ca.) Chris Newmarkers story - Assoc. Press. - about Robert Buchanan of Tuckerton, N.J. - a survivor on the field at Lakehurst during the Hindenburg fire May 6, 1937.
I, too, was on the field that evening. Another U.S. Navy Sailor, myself, an an unidentified civilian worker rescued Captain Max Pruss and Captain Lehmann as they fled from the fiery wreckage.
I was 20 years old then, attending the US Navy Aerographers School.

If you are interested - I wrote a 17-page article on the Hindenburg Fire , which at this time has not been published. I'll never forget that night! RS.

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