Billy Mitchell
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William Lendrum Mitchell was a United States Army officer who had a major role in the creation of the United States Air Force.
Mitchell, c. 1920s
Mitchell as assistant chief of Air Service (in non-regulation uniform)
The French-built SPAD XVI which Mitchell piloted in the war, now exhibited inside the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The SPAD XVI, an observation and bomber aircraft, has a Lewis twin machine gun mounted in the rear cockpit.
Mitchell posing with his Vought VE-7 Bluebird aircraft at the Bolling Field Air Tournament in Washington, D.C., held on May 14–16, 1920
Henry H. Arnold
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Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps, commandi
Billy Mitchell
…challenges for bias. The case was then presided over by Major General Robert Lee Howze. Among those who testified for Mitchell were Eddie Rickenbacker, Hap Arnold, Carl Spaatz, Ira Eaker, Robert Olds, Thomas George Lanphier Sr. and Fiorello La Guardia. The trial attracted significant interest, and public opinion…
A young Henry Arnold at the second-seat controls of a Wright Model B airplane 1911
Colonel Henry Arnold in the War Department in Washington, D.C., April 1918
Major Henry H. Arnold with the first Liberty V12 aero engine completed
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service