{"id":109099,"date":"2018-01-13T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:49:19","slug":"first-aerial-bombing-1911-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/13\/first-aerial-bombing-1911-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First aerial bombing, 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.02px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px;\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header-line-1\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/TM2S62MMI8I\/AAAAAAAAByg\/VXpjKHlQpEM\/s1600\/Giulio+Gavotti.jpg\" style=\"color: #6c82b5; text-decoration-line: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534241056784917442\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/giuliogavotti-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109100\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(33, 86, 112); cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 160px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 4px; width: 120px;\" \/><\/a>On 29th September 1911, the Italian government declared war on the Ottoman Empire having failed to achieve their demand for control of those Ottoman territories that make up modern day Libya. The conflict marked the first military use of airplanes. Initially the Italians used the new technology for reconnaissance, and later to attack Turkish troops.<\/p>\n<p>On 1st November, Liuetenant Giulio Gavotti [pictured] set off on a reconnaissance flight over the Ain Zara oasis in his&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Taube<\/span>&nbsp;(&#8220;dove&#8221;) monoplane. He took with him four 2kg grenades with the intention of attacking the Turkish forces without the knowledge of his superiors. He dropped each of the bombs onto the enemy camp, but (thankfully) there were no casualties.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29th September 1911, the Italian government declared war on the Ottoman Empire having failed to achieve their demand for control of those Ottoman territories that make up modern day Libya. The conflict marked the first military use of airplanes. Initially the Italians used the new technology for reconnaissance, and later to attack Turkish troops. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}