Bomb dropping had been a constant topic among aviation pioneers and military leaders since early 1910. Even the respected Scientific American magazine ran cover stories about it. They all imagined cities reduced to rubble, fortifications destroyed, entire battle fleets sunken; all by the perceived power of this new dimension of warfare. The first man to make an aerial bombardment was an Italian lieutenant and pilot Giulio Gavotti, who fought in the Italo-Turkish War. He set another first in the history of aerial warfare of heavier-than-air flyers besides an aerial bombardment.…
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