In 1935, the US Army dropped bombs on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano hoping to divert a deadly lava flow away from Hilo
- On December 27, 1935, something unusual happened in the skies above Hawaiʻi.
- US military aircraft dropped 40 bombs, not on an enemy, but on a river of molten lava pouring down the slopes of Mauna Loa.
- The eruption had begun a month earlier inside the volcano's summit caldera, and by late December, a fast-moving lava flow was heading straight for Hilo and the water supply that fed it.
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- On December 27, 1935, something unusual happened in the skies above Hawaiʻi.
- US military aircraft dropped 40 bombs, not on an enemy, but on a river of molten lava pouring down the slopes of Mauna Loa.
- The eruption had begun a month earlier inside the volcano's summit caldera, and by late December, a fast-moving lava flow was heading straight for Hilo and the water supply that fed it.
Sources: Times of India