On this day in 1948, the aircraft carrier HNLMS Karel Doorman was commissioned. It was the last aircraft carrier of the Royal Netherlands Navy and remained in service until 1968. Originally, there were plans for three aircraft carriers. 😳
American bombardiers said they could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
The device they used to do it cost America $1.1 billion to build.
90,000 of them were manufactured during WW2.
Pilots took an oath to destroy it before letting it fall into enemy hands.
The Nazis had already stolen the plans in 1938.
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