Perhaps Mitchell saw the future of the nation, and the lives of the members of the US military, as more important than his career.
Perhaps Mitchell saw the future of the nation, and the lives of the members of the US military, as more important than his career.
And Mitchell was right - when asked at his court martial who would attack us, he said the Japanese at Pearl Harbor [from the air]. When asked when, he said that he did not know the year - but he'd expect it early on a Sunday morning ...
Perhaps he could have been more effective working with people like Benny Foulois instead of against them. His good friend, Hap Arnold, who put his own career in jeopardy trying to save Mitchell, wrote that after his court marshal Mitchell himself warned him away from the antagonistic methods that he (Mitchell) had been using. It appears Mitchell finally recognized his antics were counter productive.