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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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