Surprise Air Force Mission Shocks the US Navy

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(Technically the "Army Air Corps") ... They thought they had won the exercise, and they thought victory was in their grasp. The Navy, as usual, was still superior to the Air Force when it came to defending the coasts of the country.
At least, this is what the Navy sailors thought as they contemplated the rainy sky from the deck. The Air Force bombers had failed to find their ship. The exercise would be over in less than 10 minutes, and there was no way they could possibly find them. They were wrong.
But as the sailors celebrated an anticipated victory, dark shadows emerged from the grayish clouds. Spotting their prey at the very last instant, B-17 and B-18 bombers, led by emerging Air Force legend, Curtis LeMay, flew straight to the USS Utah and bombed it from an altitude of 400 feet with water bombs supplied by the Navy itself.
That day, August 13, 1937, during Joint Air Exercise Number 4, the Navy got a taste of what was to come from the Air Corps, as a new rivalry between these two branches of the United States Armed Forces was about to begin. In the middle of this grudge was the best pilot America had to offer: Curtis LeMay, the man who would humble the Navy again at the Wargames of 1938. The sailors would eventually be defeated, not once, or twice, but three times, by the courageous pilot. And this was a humiliation the Navy could not tolerate. They would try to hide it.
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