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Last Survivor of the Hindenburg Disaster Dies at Age 90
ktla ^ | 11/16/2019

Posted on 11/16/2019 4:02:03 PM PST by BenLurkin

The fire killed his father, sister and 34 others. He was just 8 years old at the time.

As the 80th anniversary approached in 2017, Doehner told The Associated Press that he and his parents, older brother and sister were all on the 804-foot-long (245-meter-long) zeppelin traveling to Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. The airship departed on May 3, 1937. Doehner’s father headed to his cabin after using his movie camera to shoot some scenes of the station from the airship’s dining room. That was the last time Doehner saw him.

Doehner and his family were on their way back to Mexico City, where his father was a pharmaceutical executive. Funerals were held for his father and sister there.

Doehner was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and grew up in Mexico City. In 1984, he moved to the United States to work for General Electric as an electrical engineer, according to his obituary. He also worked in Ecuador and Mexico. He retired from New England Electric System in Westborough, Massachusetts, in 1999. He moved to Parachute, Colorado, in 2001. He and his wife of 52 years, Elin, moved to Laconia in May 2018.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: aviation; germany; hindenburg; survivor
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1 posted on 11/16/2019 4:02:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Oh the huge manatee


2 posted on 11/16/2019 4:05:44 PM PST by BRL
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To: BenLurkin

Hydrogen burns BLUE.

The fire was RED:

they doped up the skin paint in silver, which had chemical components similar to ROCKET FUEL.


3 posted on 11/16/2019 4:07:06 PM PST by gaijin
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4 posted on 11/16/2019 4:07:52 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: gaijin
they doped up the skin paint in silver, which had chemical components similar to ROCKET FUEL.

It was a powdered aluminum "silver" paint, applied over a powdered red iron oxide primer.

Powdered aluminum+powdered iron oxide=Thermite

5 posted on 11/16/2019 4:11:12 PM PST by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: BenLurkin

Memory eternal.


6 posted on 11/16/2019 4:12:40 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: BenLurkin

When Manatees were huge...


7 posted on 11/16/2019 4:15:25 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BenLurkin

R.I.P


8 posted on 11/16/2019 4:28:36 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: a fool in paradise

is that Brian Williams? He reported it s/


9 posted on 11/16/2019 4:31:10 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: gaijin

is that so? I always like your historical explanations..


10 posted on 11/16/2019 4:32:28 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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11 posted on 11/16/2019 4:37:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: max americana

Germany wanted to use helium, which was far safer than hydrogen but it had been embargoed because of the Nazis racial policies.


12 posted on 11/16/2019 4:39:05 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: BenLurkin

WOW! Thanks for posting. Condolences to any surviving family and friends.


13 posted on 11/16/2019 4:40:18 PM PST by PGalt
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14 posted on 11/16/2019 4:42:29 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: jmacusa

Ah I see. Thanks.


15 posted on 11/16/2019 4:43:14 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: BenLurkin

My dad told me that as a 15-year-old living in New Jersey near Freehold, the Hindenburgh flew over his house. He told me he and his mother and stepfather went outside to watch, his Norwegian born mother cursing at it when she saw the Swastika. Germany wouldn’t invade Norway until 1940 but my grandmother already had a great dislike for Germany.


16 posted on 11/16/2019 4:58:29 PM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: BenLurkin

The famous film and audio recording were made by a crew for WLS radio out of Chicago, that had originally headed east to report on flooding of the Ohio River.


17 posted on 11/16/2019 5:04:24 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: BenLurkin

The same thing happened to all the survivors of the Great Chicago Fire.


18 posted on 11/16/2019 5:13:28 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: NRx

Yes! Memory eternal!

I read about this - which occurred well before my time - on some anniversary many years ago. It was an account by someone who had survived - I don’t recall whether the writer was male or female - after losing their father and then seeing an older sister slide down the deck into the flames. The writer followed a man out of the wreckage who was so badly injured that his some of his bones were visible and it didn’t even bother him to push aside or rip out red hot wires and things that impeded their progress. He died, but the writer survived.

Decades later, on 9/11, I recalled this. A scene of total horror.


19 posted on 11/16/2019 5:15:15 PM PST by livius
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To: BenLurkin

My dad witnessed the Hindenburg crash first hand when he was 12 years old. Grandpa took him and the rest of the family to NAS Lakehurst to watch it land.


20 posted on 11/16/2019 5:29:57 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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