Martin B–10—low wing, all-metal monoplane bombers with every technological improvement available and twice the speed of those Mitchell had known— were already in hand, and by 1935 the four-engine Boeing B–17 was already on the horizon.
Examines the life and achievements of Billy Mitchell, American general and early proponent of an independent American air force.
On July 21, 1921, Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell circled high above the rough surface of the Chesapeake Bay, exultant witness to an event he had orchestrated and produced.
Lieutenant Colonel James E. Fechet , chief of Training and Operations , was constantly looking for ideas that would deliver ... Virginia , aviators he informed Baker that since the navy would provide the ship , it would 118 BILLY MITCHELL.
The book's focus is on Mitchell's campaign for increased spending for building new and improved aircraft and his vision of the role aircraft would play in any future wars, especially against naval ships.
As early as 1920, US Army General Billy Mitchell began sounding alarm bells about an inevitable Japanese invasion from sea-based aircraft.
"This is the best book—the most scholarly, the most judicial, the best written—about the intelligent, attractive, undiplomatic, quixotic Billy Mitchell, the legendary founder of today's United States Air Force." —Robert H. Ferrell, ...
... Mitchell was talked about at Coolidge's Cabinet meetings. Would a court-martial shut up this man? Weeks had once ... Billy Mitchell's campaign, he could not have found much cause for irritation in the editorials about the excitement ...
On July 21, 1921, Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell circled high above the rough surface of the Chesapeake Bay, exultant witness to an event he had orchestrated and produced.
A biography of the general, Billy Mitchell, whose insistence that the United States change its defense policy and stress air power resulted in his court-martial and professional ruin.
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Billy Mitchell: Stormy Petrel of the Air