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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69230 Crash of British airship R-38 (U.S. Navy ZR-2), 24 August 1921 Rescue party cutting into the fabric hull covering, near the tail, in an effort to save airmen trapped in the wreckage, "scarcely one-half hour" after the airship broke up, exploded and crashed into the Humber River at Hull, England. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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10 January 2002