USS Alabama

An MB-2 hits its target, the obsolete battleship USS Alabama, during tests on Sept. 27, 1921. The MB-2 aircraft bombed and sank the ex-U.S. Navy battleship Alabama in Tangier Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Md., to prove the usefulness of airpower because of the influence of Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell.

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