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An incipient mutiny : the story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps pilot revolt / Dwight R. Messimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Messimer, Dwight R., 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics, Military--United States--History--20th century.
- Aeronautics, Military.
- Air pilots, Military--United States--History--20th century.
- Air pilots, Military.
- Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography.
- United States. Army. Signal Corps--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. Aeronautical Division--History.
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. Aviation Section--Corrupt practices.
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. Aviation Section--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- ""An Incipient Mutiny" traces the creation of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aeronautical Division in 1907 up to the establishment of the Air Service of the National Army in 1918. It is a shocking account of shortsightedness, mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up that led ultimately to a pilot revolt against the military establishment. Dwight R. Messimer focuses on the personalities of the pilots who initiated the rebellion and on the Signal Corps officers whose mismanagement brought it on." --Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Aballoons, 1892-1908
- Benjamin D. Foulois, 1909-1911
- Paul Ward Beck, 1911-1912
- The Benjamin Foulois-Paul Beck feud, 1911-1913
- The Flying Club, 1911-1912
- The first signs of trouble, 1912
- Upheavals, 1913
- An incipient mutiny, March 1913
- Beck makes his move, 1913
- Cowen's flight pay, 1913-1915
- The seeds of rebellion, 1911-1914
- William Lay Patterson, 1914-1915
- The rift, 1914-1915
- Rebellion, 1915
- The reaction, 1915
- The turn-around, 1915
- Court martial, 1915
- The Garlington Board and the Kennedy Committee, 1916
- Separation achieved, 1917-1918
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-64012-258-3
- OCLC:
- 1125224921
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