Attached is a black and white photograph depicting the intact gondola interior of a German zeppelin.
At the center of the image is the pilot’s wheel and off to the right sits the zeppelin’s bombsite. This particular airship was identified as Zeppelin 49 and was shot down in 1917 over Bourbonne-les-Bains, France.


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