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Billy Mitchell's war with the Navy : the interwar rivalry over air power / Thomas Wildenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wildenberg, Thomas, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mitchell, William, 1879-1936.
- Mitchell, William.
- United States. Navy--Aviation--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Air Corps--History.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Air power--United States--History--20th century.
- Air power.
- Bombing, Aerial--United States--History--20th century.
- Bombing, Aerial.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was more interested in disarmament than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell's War recounts the struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the resources needed to define and establish the role of aviation within their respective services in the period between the two world wars. When Billy Mitchell returned from WW I, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made armies and navies obsolete. When Congress rejected the concept of
- Contents:
- The making of a soldier
- An fledgling eagle soars to greatness
- Laying down the gauntlet
- A shot across the bow
- Dreadnoughts under fire
- Bombing experiments off the Virginia capes
- The airplane versus the battleship
- Racing and record setting
- Patrick takes charge
- The tipping point
- A question of loyalty
- A milestone in American military aviation
- The Air Corps and coast defense
- The verdict of history
- Epilogue: Billy Mitchell in perspective
- Appendix I. Leadership of the United States Army and Navy 1916-1932
- Appendix II. Alfred Johnson's comments on Mitchell's Articles in the Saturday Evening Post
- Notes
- Other biographies of Billy Mitchell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68247-884-X
- 1-61251-332-8
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