Photo #: NH 42168
Christening of USS Akron (ZRS-4), 8 August 1931
Some of the 150,000 people who attended christening ceremonies,
held in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation "air dock"
hangar at Akron, Ohio. A choir is singing in the right center.
Note the exhibits in the right background, including a large
Goodyear tire hung overhead.
Photograph received from the Navy Recruiting Bureau, 1932.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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