Comments on: Hindenburg’s Maiden Voyage Passenger List

By: luis nascimento

luis nascimento — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:50:29 +0000

Good day. Wonderful pages. Rio de Janeiro has the only and one HINDENBURG shed made by the zeppelin company ans well preserved, I have been there recently is awesome! up today its size is powerful, seems the MIGHT DLZ129 was about to land …. I strongly recommend the visit.

google map: https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.9267525,-43.7145084,1364m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu

By: Philip van Dueren

Philip van Dueren — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:53:11 +0000

In reply to Tom Frank. Hi Frank, I'm trying to find links between von Wiegand and GH Wilkins (I think they crossed paths a few times?) Can you shed any light?

By: Alice Brown

Alice Brown — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:03:16 +0000

My nans uncle major Norman Holden went on the Hidenburg

By: Robert Hogner

Robert Hogner — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:15:24 +0000

In reply to Louisa Lavelle. We have a envelope sent from my grandfather to his son(my father) then in NYC. The return: Mid L.Z. 129Nordamerika. Is is postmarked on the front Frankfurt(Main) (date over the stamps, unreadable, but looks like 5.5), and on the back "New York N.Y. 32 Dated May 9 9AM 1936" Stamps are 50pf and 75pf

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:39:05 +0000

In reply to Don. LZ-129 frequently flew over Massachussetts on flights between Germany and New Jersey, just as airliners do today, because it lies on the Great Circle Route between Europe and the eastern United States. Your relative or friend could well have seen the airship. :)

By: Don

Don — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:00:53 +0000

My 92 yr.old claims to have seen the Hindenburg fly over holliston Massachusetts in possibly the late 1930s. Not to sure of time frame but did any flight pass over Massachusetts? Many thanks

By: Tom Frank

Tom Frank — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:32:12 +0000

In reply to Amy Palmer. Hi Amy. I came across your entry today in researching Karl von Wiegand. I've been collecting material on his career for sometime now. I'd love to chat with you and share what I've found and learn what you know about your great grandfather's immediate family.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:58:10 +0000

Does anyone have access to the passenger list for the scheduled return trip to Germany from Lakehurst? I’m curious who would have been on the Hindendburg had hit not exploded. Thank you.

By: Louisa Lavelle

Louisa Lavelle — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:36:33 +0000

My grandparents sent to me in Merchantvlle NJ a postcard with a picture of their town – Fuerstenfeldbruck. The card is dated 1.V (for 5- May) 1936 and the stamp pictures the Hindenburg (cost 50pf) and was apparently sent on that first US flight 6-9 May 1936.
In May 1937, my parents and I drove to Lakehurst after the Hindenburg crashed.
Recently reading about the survivors, I realized that on the May 16, 1937 trip on the Europa with my mother (to visit relatives), that at least some of the surviving crew members of the crash were also returning on the same ship – I was 8 years old at the time.
Louisa Hofstetter Lavelle

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:40:44 +0000

In reply to Lorraine Hynes Louanis. The Argentia Naval base was not started construction until 1940. However my mother (born 1914) remembers the airships many trips over St. John's Newfoundland. She also remembers Lindbergh flying through the Narrows of St. John's Harbour on his transatlantic flight.