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Title: U.S. Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, Calif
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1935
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room
Stanley A. Piltz
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Collection on Santa Clara County's Agricultural Past
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Postcard of the Naval Air Station at Moffett Field showing the Airship Macon at its mooring. The Macon was based at Moffett Field from October 1933 until it crashed at sea on February 11, 1935. Behind the Macon is the white landing circle. In the front of the Macon is the giant hangar where the Macon was housed between flights. To the rear of the postcard is the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; col; 9 x 14
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2z09q69b
CSJ_108
CAL-PC-SCC-MTV
Language: English
Subject: Navy-Yards and Naval Stations
Moffett Field (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
Airships
Macon (Airship)
Place: Santa Clara County (Calif.)

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