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Billy Mitchell


(Source #5, pg. 1) Mitchell's father would help him smooth out his military career. Commissioned as a second lieutenant at the early age of eighteen, Billy Mitchell, without a contracting officers warrant, managed to spend $50,000.00 of the United States governments money to build a telegraph across Alaska. Mitchell was only given an authorized budget of $5,000.00. But this slight overrun must not have hurt Mitchell much, because he came back a captain at the age of twenty-three, the youngest in the Army. (Source #3, pg. 2) .
             Mitchell felt his first attractions to aviation while in Washington after becoming the youngest officer to be appointed to the Army, and the General Staff, all at the age of thirty-two. He learned how to fly in just four Sunday sessions at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, 1n 1915. Mitchell's flying skills helped him to become the Deputy Chief of the Signal Corps Aviation Section in 1916 with the rank of major. (Source #3, pg. 2).
             Mitchell lead the greatest air offensive attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel by commanding 1,476 aircraft and twenty balloons, assembled by 101 American, British, French, and Italian squadrons in 1918. Mitchell's rank continued to increase during the time of the war, and demonstrated concepts of supremacy in the air as the chief of the Air Service First Brigade, and as the chief of the First Army and the American Expeditionary Forces. His aviation skills earned him recognition from people such as Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland, who said that Mitchell "could fly anything with wings, and fly it well". (Source #3, pg. 2) An ironic point was made by Major General D. Foulois, who had taught himself how to fly by corresponding with the Wright brothers, he stated that Mitchell was not a "regular" flyer for the Army because he had not been taught though an Army flying school. Although Mitchell was self-taught, the impact that he made on the U.


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