The air force has been battling to make a contribution to the ofense of the country ever since i've been a rest nobody paid much attention to it. We wanted an exercise where we could drop bomb on a battleship, find a battleship for the practice run. To work, the air corps needed the navy to play along. Hide a battleship out on the seas, give out its coordinates at the last minute, and dare the bombers to find this was before sophisticated radar and navigation aids. The Navy didn't give out the coordinates of its ship until late the first afternoon,. And the coordinates they gave were wrong, off by 60 miles. A needle in a haystack would have been