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Dirigible U.S.S. Macon circa 1934

View southeast from rooftop toward Matson and PG&E buildings, to US Navy airship U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5). The ship was commissioned in June, 1933 and arrived at Naval Air Station Sunnyvale (now Moffett Field) in October, 1933. It was destroyed in a crash off Point Sur, California in February, 1935. flying over downtown.
Photographer Unknown (Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector)

Dirigible U.S.S. Macon Dirigible U.S.S. Macon

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