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Congress promotes Billy Mitchell to Major General
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October 13th 03, 12:11 AM
Regnirps
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"George Z. Bush"
am wrote:
Yes, and he was also courts-martialled for insisting that airpower alone
could
win a war, a concept that the Army General Staff could neither accept nor
condone. When all was said and done, however, he was awarded a posthumous CMH
in 1946 for his conceptual contributions towards winning WWII.
Small nit. There is no 'C' in the 'MH'.
-- Charlie Springer
Regnirps