Exciting discovery of a collection of over 350 original photographs, many unseen before, of Naval aircraft, plane crash sites, ships of the fleet, Admiral Byrd Antarctic Expidition II and many other subjects, all taken in the 1930's

Every once in a while something will happen and the aircraft will crash. Part of the investigation of a crash scene is taking pictures to help the investigators in determining what happened.

When an incident like this happens, the Navy Photographer is called in to do the picture taking.

The airplane on the left is a Douglas P2D-1 Patrol Aircraft. The wings folded up like a suitcase when the pilot tried to pull up at 500 feet from a 2000 foot dive. Three people died.

Seaman 1 class Charles Bugonian, Aviation Ordnanceman 1 class Daniel Roy Glaze, Chief Radioman Walter Franklin Manthorne, and Aviation Pilot 1 class John Henry Schnitzlein killed when their P2D crashed in the mouth of the Folks River, Coco Solo, Canal Zone. 1 Sep. 1932

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