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  3. FIRST PICTURES OF THE R101 DISASTER

    Seemingly unending lines of flag-draped coffins lying in state in Westminster Hall. Men of the Royal Air Force formed a guard over the dead, while a solemn procession filed past from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN THE HISTORY OF AVIATION

    After the consuming flames had done their work: The skeleton of the great airship, in which 46 were burned to death. Never in the history of aviation has there been such an appalling disaster as the wreck of the British airship R101. In pitch darkness, it crashed into a hill in France during a storm on October 5, and, of its 54 passengers, including many of the foremost figures of British aviation, only five survived. The airship was on an experimental flight to India, before being placed on a permanent inter Empire route. These special pictures were rushed from England by Indian and Australian air mails, and show graphically the pathetic extent of the calamity which plunged all England into mourning ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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