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U.S. Army officer who foresaw -- and unwisely trumpeted -- the need for air power to win land wars. (Unwise, because his candor cost him his career.) He advocated a separate air force, thus incurring the wrath of U.S. army and navy brass. When the navy airship "Shenandoah" went down in 1925, Mitchell accused the government of "incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense." On account of that statement he was court-martialed for insubordination, and he eventually resigned from the army. The story is wonderfully captured, with Gary Cooper in the role of the general, in The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955).

(book) &quot;Memoirs of World War I: From Start to Finish of Our Greatest War&quot;. New York: Random House, 1960. (Reissued by Greenwood Press in 1975, ISBN 0837181496)

(book) &quot;General Greely: The Story of a Great American&quot; New York: G.P. Putnam&#39;s Sons, 1936.

(book) &quot;Winged Defense: The Developments and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military&quot;. New York: G.P. Putnam&#39;s Sons, 1925.

(book) &quot;Skyways: A Book on Modern Aeronautics&quot;. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1930.

(book) &quot;Our Air Force: The Keystone to National Defense&quot;. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1921.

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