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Photo #: NH 72639
Loss of USS Akron (ZRS-4), 4 April 1933
U.S. Navy Reserve O2C-1 aircraft returning to their base at Floyd
Bennett Field, New York, at sunset, after searching off the New
Jersey coast for survivors of the lost airship Akron.
Courtesy of Loyd D. Reckner, 1970
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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