From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10808 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, February 28 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10808 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Exposed: American Defeat In WW3 Now Certain... ["Attacking America" Subject: Exposed: American Defeat In WW3 Now Certain... Exposed: American Defeat In WW3 Now Certain... http://blackoutusax.shop/cJv-pVKHg6kDZZYmW0FkyAtAid0mYHWhNmLD8ge1-WRuqadNiA http://blackoutusax.shop/uCAS6fo6gYImb22Xn48PJyDHH995lx9vPhK_C7nAKcpoPEbp7g On 31 January 1919 she was decommissioned for the final time, and two months later she was renamed Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be assigned to the newly authorizedbbut never completedbbattleship Indiana (BB-50). The old battleship was brought to shallow waters in the Chesapeake Bay near the wreck of the target ship San Marcos (ex-Battleship Texas). Here she was subjected to aerial bombing tests conducted by the navy. She was hit with dummy bombs from aircraft, and explosive charges were set off at the positions where the bombs hit. The tests were a response to claims from Billy Mitchellbat the time assistant to Chief of Air Service Charles T. Menoherbwho stated to Congress that the Air Service could sink any battleship. The conclusions drawn by the navy from the experiments conducted on Indiana were very different, as Captain William D. Leahy stated in his report: "The entire experiment pointed to the improbability of a modern battleship being either destroyed or completely put out of action by aerial bombs." The subject remained a matter of dispute between Mitchell and the Navy, and several more bombing tests were conducted with other decommissioned battleships, culminating in the sinking of SMS Ostfriesland. Indiana sank during the test and settled in the shallow water, where she remained until her wreck was sold for scrap on 19 March 1924. When the US Navy adopted hull numbers in 1920, Indiana was retroactively assigned the number "BB ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10808 ***********************************************