[Tupelo]

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio near the Air Force Museum, I was fascinated by these men. And still am.

One irony that I think many over look is the The aircraft was a B25B MITCHELL bomber.
General Billy Mitchell an advocate for air power and one of the men who predicted the Pearl Harbor bombing, twenty years earlier. At that point, his army career was over, because all the Wizards of Smart (thanks Rush) “knew” war was obsolete and the Japanese were so backward they could not possibly do something like that.

[tanknetter]

Mitchell was actually dead by the time Pearl Harbor happened.

There’s a neat short story titled “Billy Mitchell’s Overt Act” that has him acceptng the demotion and staying in the AAC. Where he ends up in command of the B-17 squadron on Oahu in late 1941. Very good read.