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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

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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.

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