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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42164

USS Akron (ZRS-4)


Under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation "air dock" hangar at Akron, Ohio, 5 November 1930.
At this point, the airship's framework has been completed far enough to hold seven bags of lifting helium.

Photograph received from the Navy Recruiting Bureau, 1932.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 July 2002