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1971: Pipes and Drums, the Billy Mitchell Scottish, [102] was created in Milwaukee to honor Mitchell and his ties to Scotland and Milwaukee. Billy Mitchell Airport in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina is named for Mitchell. Mitchell Hall, the cadet dining facility at the United States Air Force Academy, was dedicated in honor of Mitchell in 1959. [103]
In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. [1]
The 1st Provisional Air Brigade was a temporary unit of the United States Army Air Service, commanded by Col. Billy Mitchell, [1] operating out of Langley Field, Virginia, that was used in Project B to demonstrate the vulnerability of ships to aerial attack when, in July 1921, the "unsinkable" German dreadnought SMS Ostfriesland was sent to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by bombardment.
By late 1944, it established the best operational record of the four B-29 groups then in combat, for which Headquarters XX Bomber Command awarded it General Billy Mitchell's personal sailing burgee and authorized it to adopt the name "The General Billy Mitchell Group," a name requiring outstanding performance of duty.
Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell (Gary Cooper) tries to prove the worth of the Air Service as an independent service by sinking a battleship under restrictive conditions agreed to by Army and Navy. He disobeys their orders to limit the attack to bombs under 1,000 pounds from an altitude of greater than 5,000 ft. and instead loads ...
General Mitchell may refer to: Billy Mitchell (1879–1936), U.S. Army brigadier general (rescinded), posthumously appointed major general; Daniel G. Mitchell (fl. 1980s–2020s), U.S. Army major general; Edith Mitchell (born 1948), U.S. Air Force brigadier general; Francis Mitchell (British Army officer) (1904–1954), British Army major general
A few weeks back, I made the argument for why General Mills stock offers investors a pretty compelling bargain -- based on the stock's valuation, and relative to a couple of its larger rivals.
Its familiarity to the general public was such that it could appear in a 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Falling Hare, in which the title character reads "Victory Thru Hare Power". [ 2 ] Filmmaker Walt Disney read the book, and felt that its message was so important that he would personally finance a partly-animated short, also called Victory Through ...