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Collection of photographs of the monument to honor those killed in tthe crash of the airship  Dixmude in 1923

Collection of photographs of the monument to honor those killed in tthe crash of the airship Dixmude in 1923

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Collection of photographs of the monument to honor those killed in tthe crash of the airship Dixmude in 1923

by Agence ROL. G. Devred; Roux-Spitz Michel (architecte) ; Martial Armand (sculpteur)

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France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Var, Pierrefeu-du-Var: 1924. Five silverprints. 18 x 13cm. Monument aux Morts (monument commémoratif) dit Monument au Dixmude....Wikipedia: The Dixmude was a Zeppelin airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and unfinished at the end of the First World War, when it was given to France as war reparations and recommissioned in French Navy service and renamed Dixmude... It was lost when it exploded in mid-air on 21 December 1923 off the coast of Sicily, killing all 52 (42 crew and ten passengers) on board.This was one of the earliest of the great airship disasters, preceded by the crash of the British R38 in 1921 (44 dead) and the US airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), and followed by the destruction of the USS Shenandoah in 1925 (14 dead) the British R101 in 1930 (48 dead), the USS Akron in 1933 (73 dead) and the German Hindenburg in 1937 (36 dead)....Le Dixmude est un ancien dirigeable allemand offert aux Alliés en 1918 au titre des dommages de guerre. Basé au Centre de Pierrefeu-du-Var, il effectua de nombreux vols entre 1920 et 1923, jusqu’à ce qu’il soit frappé par la foudre. 50 hommes perdirent la vie. A découvrir, son monument..... Aujourd'hui, qui dit Dixmude, pense porte-hélicoptères amphibie de la Marine nationale française ! Mais ce nom revient d'abord à un dirigeable Zeppelin construit pour la marine impériale allemande sous le nom de L 72 et inachevé à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale.... D’une longueur 126 mètres et d’un diamètre de 24 mètres, il avait fallu aménager spécialement un hangar pour le conserver. Cet engin aux dimensions impressionnantes était un dirigeable affecté à la surveillance de la Méditerranée. Son volume était de 68.500 m3 en seize balonnets. Sa propulsion était assurée par sept moteurs de 260 cv, ce qui lui assurait une vitesse de croisière de 77 km/h.... Ce Zeppelin allemand avait été livré à la marine nationale française suite au traité de Versailles de 1919. ...

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Collection of photographs of the monument to honor those killed in tthe crash of the airship Dixmude in 1923
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Agence ROL. G. Devred; Roux-Spitz Michel (architecte) ; Martial Armand (sculpteur)
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France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Var, Pierrefeu-du-Var: 1924
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