1939 Hindenburg Germany - USA

1939 Hindenburg flown cover with Dutch stamp & postmark forwarded to Frankfurt where it was then flown to Lakehurst with 22nd August USA arrival backstamp & North America flown cachet. This was the zeppelins seventh North American flight.

The Hindenburg was a German passenger airship named after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. The airship was in service from March 1936 until it was destroyed on May 6^th 1937 when it caught fire during an attempt to dock at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.