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Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911
A young Italian flyer describes in a letter home how he mounted the world's first ever aerial bombing run during an attack on Ottoman forces in Libya, in 1911.
Giulio Gavotti in 1910. Photograph courtesy of his grandson, Paolo di Vecchi.
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