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USS Macon 150827-N-TH437-008
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Description: 150827-N-TH437-008 WASHINGTON — Megan Lickliter-Mundon (with gloves), a researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, points out a detail on a recently recovered piece from the wreck of the rigid airship USS Macon (ZRS 5) to Kate Morrand (without gloves), the senior conservator and manager of Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch laboratory, Aug. 27. Macon crashed Feb. 12, 1935 during a storm off Point Sur, Calif., ending the Navy's program of rigid airship operations. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Lockwood/Released)
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