[Wreckage from airplane crash]

Photograph of wreckage from an airplane crash, San Antonio, Texas, December 11, 1918. The inscription notes that Lieutenant Bird was killed in the crash.

Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Lts. Bird and Howe fell [illegible]. Brooks Field, Dec 11, 1918. Lieut. Bird was killed."

Part of a photograph album from the J. V. and Harley Hyde Collection, 1918-1919. Album contains 38 black-and-white photographs documenting the military service of the Hyde brothers.

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