Dwight R. Messimer

Incipient Mutiny (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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 shortsightedness, mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up that led ultimately to a pilot revolt against the military establishment. Dwight R. Messimer focuses on the personalities of the pilots who initiated the rebellion and on the Signal Corps officers whose mismanagement brought it on. The official air force histories say nothing about the poor construction and design flaws in the airplanes that the Signal Corps used, which were responsible for the deaths of 25 percent of the pilots, a death rate so high that no life insurance company would issue them a policy. At the same time, there were airplanes on the market that were superior in every way to the planes the army was using and less expensive as well. The loss of human life, then, could not have been more senseless.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640122567
• Artikelnr.: 72304622

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