Keywords: Lot 6079-1: “Airship Roma” album. Airship Roma was purchased lighter-than-air aircraft purchased by the U.S. Army from the Italian government. Album shows the Billy Mitchell aircraft bombing tests on German and U.S. Navy ships, showing the vulnerability of ships to aerial bombing, July 18, 1921., F5L aircraft flying overhead. The imagery is related to the bombing of the ex-German scout-cruiser Frankfurt. Part of the William Mitchell papers, transferred in 1953. (8/21/2015). Lot 6079-1: “Airship Roma” album. Airship Roma was purchased lighter-than-air aircraft purchased by the U.S. Army from the Italian government. Album shows the Billy Mitchell aircraft bombing tests on German and U.S. Navy ships, showing the vulnerability of ships to aerial bombing, July 18, 1921., F5L aircraft flying overhead. The imagery is related to the bombing of the ex-German scout-cruiser Frankfurt. Part of the William Mitchell papers, transferred in 1953. (8/21/2015). |