USS Akron

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80 Years On, History's Worst Airship Disaster Remembered
 History's Worst Airship 
 Disaster Remembered 
not the hindenburg

History's Worst Airship Disaster Remembered

... and it wasn't the Hindenburg

(Newser) - The 1937 Hindenburg explosion is history's most famous airship disaster, but a bigger, deadlier, and earlier one involved an American craft that will be commemorated this week, the AP finds. On April 4, 1933, the US Navy's 785-foot USS Akron airship plunged into the Atlantic Ocean during a...

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