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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 72408

Crash of British airship R-38 (U.S. Navy ZR-2),
24 August 1921


The airship's wreckage in the Humber River at Hull, Yorkshire, England, after it had broken up in the air, exploded and crashed.
The tail is at the left.

Courtesy of Carl S. Walters, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 January 2002