Billy Mitchell

William "Billy" Mitchell
Brigjen William L. Mitchell,
United States Army Air Service
Lahir(1879-12-29)29 Desember 1879
Nice, Prancis
Meninggal19 Februari 1936(1936-02-19) (umur 56)
New York City, New York
DikebumikanForest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pengabdian Amerika Serikat
Dinas/cabang United States Army
Lama dinas1898–1926
Pangkat Mayjen (anumerta)
KomandanAir Service, Third Army – AEF
Perang/pertempuranPerang Spanyol–Amerika
Perang Dunia I
  • Pertempuran Saint-Mihiel
  • Batalion Hilang
PenghargaanDistinguished Service Cross
Distinguished Service Medal
World War I Victory Medal
Congressional Gold Medal (anumerta)

William Lendrum Mitchell (29 Desember 1879 – 19 Februari 1936) adalah seorang jenderal United States Army yang dianggap sebagai bapak Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat.[1][2]

Mitchell bertugas di Prancis pada masa Perang Dunia I dan, saat konflik berakhir, mengkomandani seluruh unit serangan udara Amerika di negara tersebut.

Referensi

Catatan

  1. ^ Ott, USAF, Lt Col William. "Maj Gen William "Billy" Mitchell: A Pyrrhic Promotion" (Winter 2006). Air and Space Power Journal. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2016-12-23. Diakses tanggal 2017-12-24. Of course these so-called adversaries did not impede Mitchell's reception of a medal of honor, but the initial efforts to promote Mitchell posthumously did come to a standstill. Senator Bass explained his motivation for reintroducing the bill years later: "He [Mitchell] was the father of the modern Air Force. ... This should be done." 
  2. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mitchell-william-lendrum-1879-1936 http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mitchell-william-lendrum-1879-1936

Daftar pustaka

  • Borch, Fred L. "Lore of the Corps: The Trial by Court-Martial of Colonel William 'Billy' Mitchell". Army Lawyer, January 2012, pp. 1–5
  • Cooke, James J. The U.S. Air Service in the Great War: 1917–1919. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0-275-94862-5.
  • Cooke, James J. Billy Mitchell. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1588260828
  • Davis, Burke. The Billy Mitchell Affair. New York: Random House, 1967. OCLC 369301
  • Hurley, Alfred H. Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power (revised edition). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-253-31203-5, ISBN 0-253-20180-2.
  • Kennett, Lee. The First Air War, 1914–1918. New York: Free Press, 1991. ISBN 0-684-87120-3.
  • Levine, Isaac Don. Mitchell Pioneer of Air Power Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, first edition, 1943. OCLC 254425324
  • Maksel, Rebecca. "The Billy Mitchell Court-Martial". Air & Space, Vol. 24, No. 2, 46–49. Also online (as of June 28, 2009) at http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/The-Billy-Mitchell-Court-Martial.html.
  • O'Neil, William D. Mitchell, Billy. American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000, Revised Oct. 2007. http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06-00441.html.
  • O'Neil, William D. "Transformation, Billy Mitchell Style," Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute 128, No. 3 (Mar 2002): 100–04. Also online at http://analysis.williamdoneil.com/Transformation%20Billy%20Mitchell%20Style%203-02.pdf
  • Waller, Douglas C. A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation (2004) excerpt and text search
  • Wildenberg, Thomas. "Billy Mitchell Takes on the Navy", Naval History (2013) 27#5
  • Wildenberg, Thomas. Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power. Naval Institute Press, 2013. ISBN 9780870210389

Sumber primer

  • Mitchell, William. Memoirs of World War I: From Start to Finish of Our Greatest War. New York: Random House, 1960.

Pranala luar

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai William Lendrum Mitchell.
  • "Court Martial", TIME Magazine, November 2, 1925 Diarsipkan 2012-11-06 di Wayback Machine.
  • "Court Martial", TIME Magazine, November 9, 1925 Diarsipkan 2013-07-21 di Wayback Machine.
  • "Guilty", TIME Magazine, December 28, 1925 Diarsipkan 2013-07-21 di Wayback Machine.
  • American Airpower Biography: Billy Mitchell Diarsipkan 2008-09-24 di Wayback Machine.
  • (Inggris) "Billy Mitchell". Find a Grave. Diakses tanggal June 20, 2010. 
  • Film pendek 15 AF HERITAGE – HIGH STRATEGY – BOMBER AND TANKERS TEAM (1980) tersedia untuk diunduh secara gratis di the Internet Archive [selebihnya]
  • World War II Liberty Ship USS Billy Mitchell
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