To: ExSES
Yes, the Navy was terrified by his demonstration, if thinking like that had caught on, appropriations for battleships and ships of the line would have disappeared.
12 posted on
08/22/2006 3:59:10 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68; ExSES
Yes, the Navy was terrified by his demonstration, if thinking like that had caught on, appropriations for battleships and ships of the line would have disappeared. It would have avoided all the wasteful spending on Battleships in the 1930's and '40s. We could have spent more on aircraft carriers and submarines and testing weapons. Imagine how many allied planes wouldn't have been lost if we had already developed aerial refueling.
To: tet68
Please excuse my ignorance, exactly what was Gen. Mitchell court-martialed for?
20 posted on
08/22/2006 4:19:55 PM PDT by
MissEdie
(Liberalscostlives)
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