Record #:

35932

Author(s):

Austin, Gary; Rollinson, Michael

Abstract:

If asked to identify visionaries for flight, one might consider the Wright Brothers. Someone else with maven status for advocating airplanes, but perhaps not so well known was General Billy Mitchell. Largely unpopular during his time, Mitchell’s assertion of combining aircraft and naval operations gradually gained support through the efforts of the then Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Source:

Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Fall 1973, p44-45

Subject(s):

Aircraft industry; Naval auxiliary--Vessels; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945; World War I; Mitchell, Billy