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John Edward Maddock Pritchard, O.B.E., A.F.C., was a British military officer who served in the RNAS, where he commanded a number of non-rigid airships, and later in the Royal Air Force. He was the first person to arrive in the United States by air from Europe. He was killed when the airship R.38 broke its back and exploded in 1921. ==Early life== Pritchard was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, in 1889. His father was of Welsh origin, but was born in the United States, and fought there during the Civil War. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge.〔 Following a post-graduate course at the Royal School of Mines, he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and took up a career as a mining engineer.
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