One morning in the winter of 1935, ten US Army bombers flew over a melting lava flow of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Their mission was to drop 40 bombs on the liquid rock to divert the volcano and save drinking water from the inhabitants of Hilo. At the command of the operation, a certain lieutenant-colonel George S. Patton. A city [...] More
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One morning in the winter of 1935, ten US Army bombers flew over a melting lava flow of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Their mission was to drop 40 bombs on the liquid rock to divert the volcano and save drinking water from the inhabitants of Hilo. At the command of the operation, a certain lieutenant-colonel George S. Patton. A city [...] More