SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Attack of the invicible airship.

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Originally Posted by Mike Abberton (Post 2218724)

From what I remember from Morisson's US Navy History, one blimp was shot down in the Caribbean. The story is the crew was aggressive and lowered the blimp's altitude to attack the sub, which allowed the sub to get enough hits in to shoot it down. Standard tactics were for the blimp to hold off at higher altitude and vector in the attack forces.

Mike

Good call on that! http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/naval-aviation-centennial-blimp-vs-u-boat/ The K74 vs the VIIC U-134 7/13/1943. Only one crewman (9 total) was lost... to sharks! The u-boat was damaged by two depth charges and the blimp commander received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Crewman Stessel, who dropped the depth charges, was killed by a shark and the U-134, unable to dive and damaged, was sunk by British bombers while attempting to return to France a few days later.