Key Points and Summary - Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, the "Father of the U.S. Air Force," was a visionary who argued that air power would make battleships obsolete. -He proved his theory in 1921 ...
United States Air Force General William “Billy” Mitchell was a pioneer of American airpower in his time. The first man to prove that modern warplanes could be key to destroying naval warships in ...
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.