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R101 Daily Express Cover Page

The front page of a newspaper. The text reads "Daily Express. Monday, October 6, 1930. The R101 Crashes And Is Destroyed: Lord Thomson, Sir Sefton Brancker And 44 Others Burned to Death. R101 DISASTER. GREAT AIRSHIP STRIKES A HILL AFTER BATTLE WITH A STORM. SLEEPING PASSENGERS ENVELOPED BY SWIFTLY RUSHING FLAMES." Below the text is an image of the wreckage of the R101 airship with a few men in white coats standing in front of it.

This is the front page of the British tabloid, the Daily Express, from October 6, 1930. The headline refers to the R101 crash, which had happened the night before.

Daily Express R101 Front Page, October 6, 1930, Box 8, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

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