This Day in History:
September 5, 1923
US Army Air Service bombers sink two obsolete battleships, the USS Virginia and the USS New Jersey, off Cape Hatteras in a large scale aerial bombing exercise witnessed by Gen. John J. Pershing and other distinguished Army and Navy officers. The planes drop small bombs up to 2000 pounders, the largest the participating Martin twin-engine bomber with two 400 hp Liberty engines can carry. The fly at altitudes up to 11, 000 ft.
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