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| Keywords: limerick flight bremen transatlantic railway station railwaystation celebration guard of honour guardofhonour glass negative glassnegative munster band ireland munsterset national library of ireland nationallibraryofireland blackandwhite monochrome black and white The first east-west non-stop transatlantic flight, in April 1928, flew from Baldonnel, Ireland to Greenly Island, Canada, in a Junkers W 33 monoplane, the "Bremen". The crew of the Bremen were Capt. Herman Köhl, Col. James Fitzmaurice and Baron Gunther Von Hünefeld. This photograph shows the crew of the Bremen received with a guard of honour at Limerick Railway Station. Photograph taken July 1928 Format: glass negative Part of: National Library of Ireland Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection. For more photographs in this collection see National Library of Ireland catalogue: catalogue.nli.ie/ NLI Ref: INDH 0808 The first east-west non-stop transatlantic flight, in April 1928, flew from Baldonnel, Ireland to Greenly Island, Canada, in a Junkers W 33 monoplane, the "Bremen". The crew of the Bremen were Capt. Herman Köhl, Col. James Fitzmaurice and Baron Gunther Von Hünefeld. This photograph shows the crew of the Bremen received with a guard of honour at Limerick Railway Station. Photograph taken July 1928 Format: glass negative Part of: National Library of Ireland Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection. For more photographs in this collection see National Library of Ireland catalogue: catalogue.nli.ie/ NLI Ref: INDH 0808 | ||||
