U.S. NAVY AIRSHIP ADVOCATE VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL AUTOGRAPHED LETTER for Sale

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U.S. NAVY AIRSHIP ADVOCATE VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL AUTOGRAPHED LETTER For Sale

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U.S. NAVY AIRSHIP ADVOCATE VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL AUTOGRAPHED LETTER:
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U.S. NAVY AIRSHIP ADVOCATE VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL AUTOGRAPHED LETTER
ORIGINAL MAY 27,1971 AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED LETTER TO AN AIRSHIP RESEARCHER BY "VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL" IN BLACK PEN style="margin: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">27 May 1971

C.E. ROSENDAHL

FLAG POINT

TOMS RIVER, N.J. 08753

244-1102

Dear Buddy -

Sorry we did not make contact but I am

Indeed very busy these days.

I am sure you will find the Lakehurst Anniversary

program very interesting.

Best wishes

Sincerely

C.E. Rosendahl

Buddy Miller style="margin: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">DIMENSIONS: 4 3/16 " x 5 1/2"

PERSONAL NOTE PAPER OF C.E.ROSENDAHL WITH PLOVER WATERMARKED BOND PAPER.

CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE.(please see pictures).
Charles Emery Rosendahl (b.1892-d.1977) was the leading figure in America’s rigid airship program. He was one of the most experienced airship aviators in the United States, and was a tireless proponent of lighter-than- air aviation, but is perhaps best remembered as the commander of NAS Lakehurst at the time of the Hindenburg disaster. He was a highly decorated vice admiral in the United States Navy. Despite a distinguished career as a Naval officer and airshipman, Rosendahl is perhaps best remembered by the public as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, New Jersey at the time of the Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1910 and was graduated in 1914. After serving in the surface fleet in numerous war ships. Rosendahl’s distinguished career in the Navy’s lighter- than-air program began when he answered a call for airship volunteers in January, 1923. He reported to Naval Air Station Lakehurst for training in April, 1923, and by October he was assigned as a navigator and mooring officer aboard USS Shenandoah. Lieutenant Commander Rosendahl was aboard USS Shenandoah when the ship was caught in a storm over Ohio on September 3, 1925. Rosendahl and 6 other men were in the bow section when the ship broke apart; without the weight of the control car, which had fallen from the ship, the bow was highly bouyant and climbed rapidly. Under Rosendahl’s leadership, the men in the bow released helium from the cells and free-ballooned to a relatively gentle landing, which they all survived. 14other members of the crew were killed in the crash, including the ship’s captain, Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. In March, 1926, Rosendahl was assigned as Executive Officer of USS Los Angeles, and was given command of the ship two months later. Rosendahl relinquished command of Los Angeles to the ship’s Executive Officer, Herbert V. Wiley, to travel to Europe to observe British airship operations and participate in the flight trials of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. Rosendahl was aboard Graf Zeppelin during its first transatlantic crossing to America in October, 1928 and its Round-the-World flight in August, 1929. During these flights, Rosendahl stood watch as a ship’s officer under the command ofHugo Eckener. In 1931, Rosendahl was put in charge of the flight trials of the newly-built USS Akron and then assumed command of Akron when the ship was commissioned. Rosendahl commanded Akron on forty flights, until June 22, 1932, when he left Akron to rejoin the surface fleet aboard the battleship USS West Virginia and then the cruiser USS Portland. In 1936, having been promoted to Navy commander, Rosendahl served as a watch officer aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg during four transatlantic crossings between Germany and North and South America, and he was also invited to fly on Hindenburg’s famous October 9, 1936 Millionaires Flight, on which Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, was a fellow passenger. As a Navy Captain during World War 2, Rosendahl was involved with both the Navy’s anti-submarine blimp program as well as the surface fleet. Captain Rosendahl served as commander of the heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Tassafaronga in November, 1942; despite heavy damage from the two Japanese torpedoes, which destroyed the ship’s bow, Minneapolis reached port for repairs and Rosendahl was awarded the Navy Cross.
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