Navy put tight controls on the tests to restrict Mitchell and the Air Service. Air Service to participate in naval bombing tests that took place during the summer months of 1921. Mitchell used his influence in Congress to allow the U.S. His ultimate goal was a completely independent air force much like the RAF within a Department of Aeronautics. Mitchell nevertheless was undeterred in his attempt to take his arguments in favor of air power to congressional leaders and the public.
“Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during the war, and now Chief of Staff of the U.S. Menoher, a distinguished WWI infantry commander and protégé of General John J. On Mitchell’s return to the United States, he fully expected to be named chief of the Air Service. Mihiel salient during the war, and he had been, according to his most prominent biographer, Alfred Hurley ( Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power), strongly influenced by the ideas of the British General Hugh “Boom” Trenchard, head of the Royal Flying Corps, and later of the Royal Air Force (RAF) regarding aircraft as offensive weapons. As such he was responsible for aerial operations in the St. Mitchell was a decorated veteran airman who had commanded the American air combat units in France during World War I.
Service in World War I and Immediate Postwar Years William “Billy” Mitchell, on July 21, 1921. Army Air Service’s First Provisional Air Brigade, led by Brig. Aerial view of the captured German battleship Ostfriesland after it was attacked by the U.S.
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