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| Tango01 | 01 Nov 2019 4:01 p.m. PST |
"It was inevitable that the men in uniform would show a keen interest in the first successful efforts at flying. Within four years of the Wright brothers' inaugural hop the US Army issued the first specification for a military aeroplane. In 1909 H. G. Wells, the author of Little Wars, wrote about the future of the aeroplane in war "The victor in that aerial struggle will tower pitilessly watchful eyes over his adversary" and the Italian aerial theorist Giulio Douhet declared "a new weapon has come forth, the sky has become a battlefield". By 1911 the aeroplane had been used by Italy to fly reconnaissance missions in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Very soon Italian aeroplanes were being used for artillery spotting and photo-reconnaissance. On the 1st November the first bombs were dropped…"
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