Photo #: NH 90261
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
Night photograph of the airship's control car, probably at the
time of her arrival at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego,
California, on 10 October 1924, after a flight across the Continent.
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics,
is standing in the rightmost control car window.
Captain Thomas T. Craven, Commanding Officer of NAS North Island,
is on the ground, at right.
Photograph from the collection of Vice Admiral T.T. Craven. Courtesy
of Lieutenant Rodman DeKay, Jr., USNR (Retired), 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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