Lot 6079-3: “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 port mid-ship, about 10:01 a.m., dropped by U.S. Navy F5L. Part of the William Mitchell papers, transferred in 1953.  (8/21/2015).
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