sveahk till bombsiktet!The first time that explosives were dropped in war from an aeroplane was during the Italian-Turkish war in Libya. On the morning of November 1 1911 Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti flew over the Taguira Oasis on the Turkish front, reportedly extracting the pins with his teeth, he threw four 4.5lb grenades from about 300ft onto the troops below. This achieved very little but the incident caused an international enquiry and provoked protests from the Turks about the indiscriminate nature of the attack.
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