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This illustration depicts a very controversial episode in WWII airship history, the August 25, 1944 encounter of the U.S. Navy airship K-25 with a Type XIB U-Krüzer off of Chatham, Massachusetts. According to the airship's skipper, the giant U-Boat was sunk by the airship's depth bomb, and indeed today, the sidescan sonar image of the sunken vessel matches the Type XI-B size and conformation. Official U.S. Navy word is that the event never happened.

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