well, Army Air Corps and biplanes.
quote:
That December, a pond of lava breached its levees and advanced on Hilo at a rate of a mile per day.
Fearing it would reach the town and its watershed, Thomas Jaggar, the founder and first director
of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, called on the Army Air Corps.
On Dec. 27, 10 Keystone B-3 and B-4 biplane bombers struck the lava flow,
targeting its tubes and channels.
https://www.dailypress.com/featured...0200315-cyczdzrdhfemrnb7j5uqsixbbe-story.html
quote:
That December, a pond of lava breached its levees and advanced on Hilo at a rate of a mile per day.
Fearing it would reach the town and its watershed, Thomas Jaggar, the founder and first director
of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, called on the Army Air Corps.
On Dec. 27, 10 Keystone B-3 and B-4 biplane bombers struck the lava flow,
targeting its tubes and channels.
https://www.dailypress.com/featured...0200315-cyczdzrdhfemrnb7j5uqsixbbe-story.html
