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Airship - Moffet, Litchfield, and Dresel
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| Title | Airship - Moffet, Litchfield, and Dresel |
| Description | Mr. and Mrs. Admiral William Moffett (left), Paul W. Litchfield, and Commander Alger Dresel (right) at the christening ceremony of the U.S.S. Macon at the Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock at Akron, Ohio on March 13, 1933. Admiral William Moffett was Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. He later died in the U.S.S. Akron crash. Paul W. Litchfield was the president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Litchfield began an aeronautics department for Goodyear in 1910, and launched the company into lighter-than-air craft production. The company produced observation balloons, zeppelins, and blimps. Commander Alger Dresel was the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Akron. |
| Subject | U.S.S. Macon
Airship
Aviation
Goodyear-Zeppelin Co.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
Aviators
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| Name | Moffett, Admiral William A.
Litchfield, Paul W.
Dresel, Alger
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| About the Collection | http://www.akronlibrary.org/internetresources/sc/finding/fulton.pdf |
| Contributor | Akron-Summit County Public Library
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| Date | 13 March 1933 |
| Type | Image
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| Format | 10 in. x 8 in. |
| Source | SF_Moffett_Litchfield_Dresel.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Fulton Collection
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Additional Information | http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0, 9171, 737895-3, 00.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29 |
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