Dwight R. Messimer

An Incipient Mutiny

The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt

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Produktbeschreibung

An Incipient Mutiny traces the creation of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aeronautical Division in 1907 up to the establishment of the Air Service of the National Army in 1918. It is a shocking account of mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up that led ultimately to a pilot revolt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781640122123
• ISBN-10: 1640122125
• Artikelnr.: 55807357

Autorenporträt

Dwight R. Messimer has written a dozen books on military and naval history, including Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I and The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland during World War I.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Army’s Balloons, 1892–1908
2. Benjamin D. Foulois, 1909–1911
3. Paul Ward Beck, 1911–1912
4. The Benjamin Foulois–Paul Beck Feud, 1911–1913
5. The Flying Club, 1911–1912
6. The First Signs of Trouble, 1912
7. Upheavals, 1913
8. An Incipient Mutiny, March 1913
9. Beck Makes His Move, 1913
10. Cowen’s Flight Pay, 1913–1915
11. The Seeds of Rebellion, 1911–1914
12. William Lay Patterson, 1914–1915
13. The Rift, 1914–1915
14. Rebellion, 1915
15. The Reaction, 1915
16. The Turnaround, 1915
17. Court-Martial, 1915
18. The Garlington Board and the Kennedy Committee, 1916
19. Separation Achieved, 1917–1918
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index