Click to open image viewer. Picture postcard of the Graf Zeppelin sent by crewmember Albert Lehmann and carried on the Graf Zeppelin's first America flight (Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst). The card ...
The around-the-world flight of the hydrogen-filled German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was one of the biggest news stories of 1929. The craft took off from Lakehurst, N.J., on Aug. 8, 1929, heading east ...