On June 24, 1990, the wreckage of the rigid airship, USS Macon (ZRS-5), was located by the Navy submersible Sea Cliff (DSV 4) off the coast of Point Sur, California, where it had crashed on February 12, 1935. At the time, Macon was carrying four F9C-2 S
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Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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