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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42040

Crash of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 3 September 1925


Wreckage of the airship's after section, soon after she crashed in southeastern Ohio.
Photographed by Dowling, Caldwell, Ohio.
This view shows the entire after section, from off the starboard side, with the remains of the tail fins at the left.
Note the many automobiles and sightseers.

Courtesy of Allan J. Drugan, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 December 2002