Billy Mitchell and the Ostfriesland - a new era...

[MKopack]

Ninety-years ago today Billy Mitchell dropped a bomb that at least indirectly started the Air Force.

“It is a very serious question whether airpower is auxiliary to the Army and the Navy,

or whether armies and navies are not actually auxiliary to airpower.”

General William 'Billy' Mitchell

Surface area view of the captured German battleship Ostfriesland after it was attacked

by Martin MB-2 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Service’s First Provisional Air Brigade,

led by Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, on July 21, 1921.

[spaceman]

Cool picture! And way to represent Wisconsin, Billy.

I live right next to General Mitchell International Airport, in Milwaukee