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...milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head in his hands and wept, as the "unsinkable" German battleship Ostfriesland sank with a glug heard round the world-and echoed violently in military history from that day to this...
...Mitchell vision been more devoutly cherished or more openly defended than by Harold Lee George. In 1921, when General Mitchell was finally allowed, under smothering restrictions, to test the battle worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...
Bombing battleships in motion on the high seas was proved possible and, to the vessel, disastrous, as long ago as 1920 by the late General "Billy" Mitchell of the U. S., who bombed the condemned ex-German battleship Ostfriesland off the Virginia Capes. During the Spanish Civil War, Loyalist bombers put the German Deutschland out of commission. First British air raid of World War II was on battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North...
...German ship Ostfriesland (turned over to the U. S. after the War) was sunk by U. S. bombers. She was more modern. Airplanes dropped 69 bombs at altitudes of only 1,200 to 2,000 feet, making 16 direct hits, did not succeed in sinking her until the second...
This destruction will be loosed upon the Virginia and New Jersey. Not even direct hits should be necessary to sink them. As in the case of the Ostfriesland, the great bombs bursting in the water alongside will probably be enough to wreck the hull by their concussions...