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The Hindenburg Disaster

6th May 1937

While landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6 May 1937 on its first transatlantic crossing of the year, the German airship Hindenburg burst into flames and was destroyed, killing 36 of the 97 persons aboard.


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