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Frank Daily’s Europe

Bearing Nazi swastikas on its tail fins, the LZ 129 Hindenburg was a massive rigid airship. Less than a year after Frank Daily observed the zeppelin in a Frankfurt hangar, it caught fire and crashed while landing in New Jersey.

Bearing Nazi swastikas on its tail fins, the LZ 129 Hindenburg was a massive rigid airship. Less than a year after Frank Daily observed the zeppelin in a Frankfurt hangar, it caught fire and crashed while landing in New Jersey.   (AFP/Getty Images )

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Former Chicago teacher Frank Daily took a whirlwind trip to Europe in 1936, and now his son has published his late dad’s travelogue.

Arc de Triomphe and Place de l'Etoile

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris greatly impressed Frank Daily. “No one enters it,” he wrote, “without emitting a gasp of wondrous appreciation.”   (Roger Viollet/Getty Images )

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