1921/1923 GENERAL MITCHELL BOMBS BATTLESHIPS

July 13 - 21, 1921 ... Army crews from the First Provisional Air Brigade at Langley Field, Va., flying Martin MB-2 bombers, sink three ships, off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, including the captured German battleship Ostfriesland, demonstrating the vulnerability of naval craft to aerial attack. *** Virginia (BB 13) and her sister ship USS New Jersey(BB 16) were taken to a point three miles off the Diamond Shoals lightship, off Cape Hatteras, N.C., and anchored there on 5 September 1923. The “attacks“ mad