Col. Billy Mitchell: court-martialed for being right! The Father Of The United States Air Force. He predicted the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Thumpalumpacus · Sep 25, 2023

Alan Stevens said:
Well, they wouldn't have court-martialed him if they knew was right in the present.

Well, they wouldn't have court-martialed him if they knew his beliefs on airpower would be proved correct in the 1940s.

Of courser they would have punished him. He violated UCMJ in a very public and very embarrassing way, disparaging the officer corps of the Army, and the MK I Ball, Crystal, Foretelling was having some teething issues.

special ed · Sep 25, 2023

It was the same outspoken attitude of Chennault that got him banished. It started with a Navy wargame at Pearl Harbor in which he did not follow USN rules and buzzed the Navy's AA defenses to prove the uses of fighters for AA supression. He also predicted the P.H. attack vulnerability, bringing USN pressure on Army big shots to do something about "this rogue Captain".

manta22 · Sep 25, 2023

special ed said:
It was the same outspoken attitude of Chennault that got him banished. It started with a Navy wargame at Pearl Harbor in which he did not follow USN rules and buzzed the Navy's AA defenses to prove the uses of fighters for AA supression. He also predicted the P.H. attack vulnerability, bringing USN pressure on Army big shots to do something about "this rogue Captain".

These cases are always the bureaucracy protecting its own butt instead of considering the validity of his argument.

Col. Billy Mitchell: court-martialed for being right! The Father Of The United States Air Force. He predicted the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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