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October 8th 03, 08:09 PM
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Congress promotes Billy Mitchell to Major General
Fat lot of good it does him now...
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October 10th 03, 06:14 AM
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"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message ... Fat lot of good it does him now... I thought he _was_ a Major General. -Ugly Bob
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October 10th 03, 11:00 PM
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"Ugly Bob" wrote in message ...
"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message ... Fat lot of good it does him now... I thought he _was_ a Major General. A major general, to be sure, but not a Major General... remember the court martial (it probably dropped him a few ranks)?
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October 11th 03, 07:48 PM
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"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message om... "Ugly Bob" wrote in message ... "Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message ... Fat lot of good it does him now... I thought he _was_ a Major General. A major general, to be sure, but not a Major General... remember the court martial (it probably dropped him a few ranks)? I remember seeing a portrait of him ages ago (I think this was the one) http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/billypor.jpg Oops, one star (say, you don't think that this guy was decorated at all, do you). -Ugly Bob
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October 11th 03, 08:04 PM
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His decendants will probably want to collect back-pay with
interest. Major General... Give me a break, what a joke. Why not give him an honorary PhD while they're at it?
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#6
October 12th 03, 02:31 AM
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:04:02 GMT, "Gene Storey" wrote
in Message-Id: : Major General... Give me a break, what a joke. Why not give him an honorary PhD while they're at it? Wasn't Billy Mitchell the fellow who first demonstrated that aircraft were capable of sinking battleships? I'd say that was a significant contribution to the art of warfare. -- Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts. -- Larry Dighera,
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#7
October 12th 03, 01:45 PM
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:04:02 GMT, "Gene Storey" wrote in Message-Id: : Major General... Give me a break, what a joke. Why not give him an honorary PhD while they're at it? Wasn't Billy Mitchell the fellow who first demonstrated that aircraft were capable of sinking battleships? I'd say that was a significant contribution to the art of warfare. Yes, and he was also courts-martialled for insisting that airpower alone could win a war, a concept that the Army General Staff could neither accept nor condone. When all was said and done, however, he was awarded a posthumous CMH in 1946 for his conceptual contributions towards winning WWII. Incidentally, he was also a visionary. After a staff visit to Japan in 1924, he submitted a report in which he predicted the events that actually occurred at Pearl Harbor in 1941. I don't know what the rationale was for his posthumous promotion to Major General, but I'm not inclined to pooh-pooh it out of hand. George Z.
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October 13th 03, 12:08 AM
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October 13th 03, 12:11 AM
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#10
October 13th 03, 02:27 AM
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Yes, and he was also courts-martialled for insisting that airpower alone
could win a war No, he was court martialled (and rightfully so) for publically accusing both the President (Calvin Coolidge) and Congress of treason in what he believed was their negligence in managing and funding the US Army Air Corps and aviation in general. I believe the crash of a US Navy dirigible was what prompted him to make the remarks to a national newspaper. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek"
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