Which was the first country to drop a bomb from an airplane?

Italy, who initiated the first offensive use of aircraft by bombing an oasis in Libya on November 1, 1911 during the Tripolitanian War.

The Militarization of Aviation

Right on 'Fuse.

Is it just me or does anyone else think it's comical that the Italian military would bomb an oasis?

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First Bomb from an aircraft

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Originally posted by coldfuse:
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's comical that the Italian military would bomb an oasis?

Don't get the point Surely you'd bomb what was critical to the enemy. What could be more important than the places in a desert where he got his only supply of water, the only places that could sustain life, and the only regularly inhabited places ?

(If they'd bombed a vineyard instead that action would show a distinctively Italian sense of what was important )