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Photograph of wreckage from an airplane crash, Brownsville, Texas, circa 1918. The inscription notes that Major Kirby and Lieutenant Quirk were killed in the crash.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Maj. Kirby was…

Photograph of wreckage from a crashed airplane, San Antonio, Texas, circa 1918.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Two men tried to drive at once. As usual, the ground settled the argument."Part of a photograph album…

Military report by Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde titled "Statement of the causes which led to the accident which caused the death of Lieutenant L. B. Evans," circa 1918-1919. Describes the events which led to an airplane crash. One typed page.

Newspaper clipping, "Kansas Cityan tells of fall in airplane," from an unidentified newspaper, circa 1918-1919. Gives Lieutenant Jules Verne Hyde's first-hand account of an airplane crash at Brooks Field that resulted in the death of one of his…

Photograph of servicemen gathered around two crashed Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1917-1919.

Photograph of the wreckage from a crashed Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1917-1919.

Photograph of a crashed Avro 504 aircraft in a forest, circa 1919.

Photograph of soldiers looking at a crashed SPAD XIII aircraft, circa 1918-1919. Part of the Irwin Bryan Meyers Photograph Album, an album containing 129 photographs related to Meyers's service as an airplane mechanic in France during and after World…

Photograph of wreckage from an American Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter aircraft and an unidentified German aircraft, circa 1918-1919. Loose photograph in album.Part of the Irwin Bryan Meyers Photograph Album, an album containing 129 photographs related to…

Photograph of two unidentified people posing with a crashed Salmson 2 A2 aircraft, circa 1918-1919. Part of the Irwin Bryan Meyers Photograph Album, an album containing 129 photographs related to Meyers's service as an airplane mechanic in France…