Word: dresel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Affairs Committee investigating the Akron's fate, he told how water rushing into one cabin window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, will take command of the Naval Air Station at Sunnyvale, Calif. Onetime commander of both the Los Angeles and Akron, he is the first officer to command three U. S. airships. Among other...
...lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection by Congressional committeemen. It might then be many weeks before summer thunderstorms over the Southwest would permit the Macon to cross the continent. However, canny Captain Alger Herman Dresel of the Macon was equally intent on getting his ship direct from Akron to the Pacific without delay...
Last week a salvage vessel fished up part of the control car of the U. S. S. Akron from the sea floor off Barnegat Lightship. This grim sequel did not appear to weigh gravely on the mind of Commander Alger Herman Dresel, one-time captain of both the Los Angeles and the Akron, as he stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon...
...ship handled well," was tight-lipped Captain Dresel's only comment...
...ALGER M. DRESEL Commander U. S. Navy U. S. S. Macon Detail Akron, Ohio...