Winged Defense
Nonfiction work
By: William Mitchell
Date: 1925
Source: Mitchell, William. Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power—Economic and Military. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925, ix–x, 3.
About the Author: William "Billy" Mitchell (1879–1936) served in the U.S. infantry during the Spanish-American War (1898) and in 1909 graduated from the U.S. Army Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. During World War I, he served as aviation officer of the American Expeditionary Force, and was promoted to brigadier general. After the war, he was appointed assistant chief of the air service. In 1925 the Army court-martialed him for insubordination because he blamed the Navy's loss of a dirigible on "criminal negligence." Mitchell resigned the next year and died ten years later.
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