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Happy Saturday! Recently on the show, we talked about the balloons of World War Two.

And while there were also airships in use during this period of time that we were covering,

we did not really talk about them because airships could be steered and they could move under

their own propulsion so they were sort of a whole different thing from the un-piloted balloons

that we were focused on. We said that we would play an airship episode as an upcoming Saturday

classic and here it is. It is about the USS Akron, which was a US Navy airship during the 1930s,

and the disaster that destroyed it in 1933. Enjoy!

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye. And I'm Tracy V Wilson.

Tracy, did you know that the loss of the USS Akron was the biggest single tragedy in aviation

history at the time that it happened? I did not know that level of detail.

Yeah, because unless you're an aviation or a US Navy history buff, you might not know much about it.

It's one of those things that kind of doesn't get a whole lot of attention.

I think we might have mentioned it just as an aside in that episode that we did about the

Hindenburg, but even so we did not get into any detail.

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