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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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2 July 2002