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1911: Bombing Raids in Libya
Giulio Gavotti, the first airman to bomb from the air, tells the story of that first air raid.
During fighting in November 1911 between Italy and forces loyal to the Turkish, Ottoman Empire, Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti writes in a letter to his father: “Today two boxes full of bombs arrived. We are expected to throw them from our planes." This was the world’s first air raid.
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