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To: digger48

Those Billy Mitchell uniforms are sharp.

Ironic that they'd use his name, considering what happened to General Mitchell.


17 posted on 06/02/2006 2:01:25 PM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: highball
Ironic that they'd use his name, considering what happened to General Mitchell.

It was to appease the Navy battleship admirals, and to some extent similar hidebound Army brass, that Mitchell was court martialed. (Kind of, it would be more proper to say that Mitchell's a bit overzealous actions in trying to convince them of the error of their ways led to the court martial) He's an iconic hero in the USAF. Remember they named a bomber after him even before WW-II. The B-25, used by Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raiders, who ironically took off from a Navy ship, the Hornet, but escorted by Lexington, which had been originally laid down as a battlecruiser.

76 posted on 06/02/2006 4:01:46 PM PDT by El Gato
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