My report is on the trial one of the all-time greatest pilots of the early nineteen-hundreds, Billy Mitchell. Billy became the first uniformed pilot to fly over enemy lines. He commanded one-thousand five-hundred fifty allied planes. He set the air speed record for that period of time of a screaming two-hundred and twenty-four point five miles per hour. He went on trial for speaking out about the Navy.         Mitchell promised Congress, and the rest of …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…on March 27, 1948 to William Mitchell Jr. The ceremony at the Pentagon was attended by military officers, old fliers, and congressmen, as well as Billy MItchell¹s widow, three daughters, and two sisters. Young William Mitchell, 19, shock his head and said in a voice just above a whisper, "There¹s not much I can say." General Carl Spaatz said more, calling the existence of an independent Air Force "the clearest vindication of General Mitchell¹s views."