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This photo is shown in all-aero.com/index.php/contactus/61-lighter-than-air/1780... with caption "Officers of the USS Shenandoah on her first flight (left to right): Lieut. A.R. Houghton, Lieut. L.E. Mueller, Cdr. J.H. Klein, Lieut. C.E. Rosendahl, Lieut. Cdr. M.R. Pierce, Lieut. J.C. Arnold, Lieut. E.H. Kincaid, Lieut. H.V. Wiley, Lieut. R.J. Miller, Lieut. R.F. Tyler, Lieut. J.B. Anderson Shenandoah first flew on 4 September 1923. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Rosendahl "Charles Emery Rosendahl (May 15, 1892 – May 17, 1977) was a highly decorated Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, and an advocate of lighter-than-air flight." See also web.archive.org/web/20030804140410/http://www.history.nav... and library.utdallas.edu/specialcollections/hac/rosendahl/ind...

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Although the photo is inscribed "Lieut. Rosendahl," it is likely that inscribed rank is incorrect. Given the time period of this collection of photos, and historical US Navy photos of Charles E. Rosendahl (USN) in the control car of USS Akron (ZRS-4), it is likely that he actually held the rank of Lieutenant Commander when this photo was taken. Rosendahl was an advocate of lighter than air (LTA) flight. He not only served as a US Navy observer aboard the German airship Hindenburg (LZ-129), but he was also the commander of Naval Air Station Lakehurst when the Hindenburg exploded and crashed there on May 6, 1937. Rosendahl would rise to the rank of Vice Admiral by the time he retired from the US Navy in November 1946. See more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Rosendahl

Here is Universal Newsreel footage of Admiral Charles Rosendahl being honored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in July 1946 prior to his retirement from the Navy. Buyout Footage Historic HD Film Archive - DIRIGIBLE PIONEER RETIRES LAKEHURST, N.J. – Admiral C.E. Rosendahl, survivor of the ill-fated “Shenandoah,” and for years the Navy’s leading exponent of lighter-than-air work, retires from the Navy with full honors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeXiieopOak