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Queen Mary Reservoir plane crash, 1937

The wreckage of an airplane belonging to the Midland Bank Flying Club, which crashed into Queen Mary reservoir, near Staines, Middlesex in 1937. The plane had come from Hanworth aerodrome and the pilot, Mr Herbert Willis, had drowned

Picture No
12079561
Media ID
46522177
Size
5974px x 4509px (3.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere 4th September 1937, page 371
Date
1937

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