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Wales Online
Wales Online
National
Robert Harries

The truth about the picture of a Welsh town brought to a standstill by a giant airship in the sky

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a huge airship flying over the main square in Carmarthen.

The picture says it all. Shoppers and workers stand in Lammas Street, looking up in awe as a giant of the sky makes its way above Wales’ oldest town.

But does this picture capture one of the most famous aircraft in human history, a doomed German airship called LZ 129 Hindenburg?

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