The Lion Killers
Subtitle: Billy Mitchell and the Birth of Strategic Bombing
Contributors: Debra D. Rezeli (Illustrator); Robert V. Drapala (Photographer)
Publisher: Aerial Perspective
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780966058680
Subjects: Military - World War I; Military - Strategy; History - Military / War; History; Military; Military - United States; Military - Aviation
Description: The story of the birth of air power and of General William "Billy" Mitchell, staunch advocate of air power and of a separate Air Service outside of the Army; bombing tests off the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1923; controversy over air power and Mitchell's trial.