targetship

29 photos tagged targetship, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1910

2014

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TVL1970 said:
There's a typo in the LOC caption, this is SMS Ostfriesland, a Helgoland-class battleship of the Imperial German Navy.

Ostfriesland would survive the war, only to be turned over to the United States as part of war reparations in April 1920. It is while in the United States that the Ostfriesland would gain its historical notoriety as a target ship, and be forever linked with air power proponent General Billy Mitchell.

See Aerofiles:
aerofiles.com/ostfriesland.html
Kilted Cowboy said:
There is a typo, her name is Ostfriesland (SMS) An early German Dreadnought, she survived the war like most German battlewagons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Ostfriesland
Barbara (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks for catching the typo and for the further information. We'll adjust the description when we update.

Alan Roesler said:
The Frankfort was a German armored light cruiser that was sunk on July 18, 1921, during bombing practice by U.S. Air Service, First Brigade, including the 96th Bombardment Squadron and the 49th Pursuit Squadron, operating out of Langley Field, Virginia.

Chuck Walla said:
According to Wikipedia, USS Alabama BB-8 was being used as a target ship and was sunk on or about September 27, 1921. I can't tell the source of this photo. I'm unsure of Rohr's relationship to the image.