BOMBING BATTLESHIPS
New York, April 15. American pilots have learn how to bomb a battleship on its bottom. Through an amazingly simple sight a pilot aim s his bomb at the waterline of a ship or skips it off the water against the side of the ship. The bomb, fixed with a time fuse, crashes against the side of the ship but does not explode. It drops down into the water alongside the ship and explodes when it gets parallel with the bottom of the ship.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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86BOMBING BATTLESHIPS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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