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Photograph by U. S. Army Air Service 



LOOKING DOWN ON Till'. DECKS <)!• THE U. S. BATTLESHIP "oino" FROM AN ATRPLANE 



A single air bomb containing from 1,000 to 1,400 pounds of high explosive and dropped 

 from an airplane would wreak more destruction on this great floating fortress than 25 large 

 projectiles from an enemy battleship (see text, page 341). 



