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Description Lot 6079-4: “Airship Roma” album. Airship Roma was purchased lighter-than-air aircraft purchased by the U.S. Army from the Italian government. Album shows the Billy Mitchell aircraft bombing tests on German and U.S. Navy ships, showing the vulnerability of ships to aerial bombing, July 18, 1921. The imagery is related to the bombing of the ex-German scout-cruiser Frankfurt. This image shows an exploding bomb starboard mid-ship, about 10:06 a.m., dropped by U.S. Navy F5L. The circular holes to the left and right of the explosion are punched holes in the photograph. Part of the William Mitchell papers, transferred in 1953. (8/21/2015).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/20174625143 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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