“I am here to tell the truth,” Colonel Billy Mitchell told cheering ... hero and unreserved advocate of air power, and stacks of letters poured in. (Mitchell’s wife, Betty, would answer ...

said Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell, one-time stormy petrel of the Army Air Force in a CRIMSON interview. The General, who was in command of the Air Force of the Second Army during the ...

“Nothing like the smell of victory in the evening air,” Mitchell wrote on X. “Billy Mitchell always has a plan. Thank you to everyone who supported me. I am grateful.” Jobst ...

the first race was held as part of the larger Pulitzer Trophy air races on Oct. 14, 1922. The trophy was introduced by Lt.