Airship Disasters

For a dozen turbulent years between WWI and WWII, the U.S. Navy poured millions of dollars into an audacious dream: to rule the skies with a fleet of massive airships. Armed with squadrons of scout planes, these "Battleships of the Skies" could travel far over the horizon to detect enemy approach. Journey into a lost chapter of military history to discover how the airships USS Shenandoah, USS Akron, and USS Macon were lost in a series of aviation disasters that altered the evolution of aerial warfare.

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