In 1935, the US Army dropped bombs on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano hoping to divert a deadly lava flow away from Hilo | World News
1935 Lava Bombing Mission: US drops 40 bombs on Mauna Loa flow 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…