Query: *
"The Wreck of the Akron Dirigible" Sheet Music
Dates:
1933
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.1993.0030
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
The USS ZRS-4 Akron crashed on April 4, 1933 about 20 miles off the New Jersey shore near Barnegat Light when the stern crashed on the sea during a storm. This collection consists of a copy of the sheet music for "The Wreck of the Akron Dirigible," written especially for Earl and Ford Hitchcock, The Hitchcock Brothers, who sung the song on their Akron radio station after the crash.
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