Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense by William Lendrum Mitchell: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 5:15:55 running time and a link to listen.
Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense, credited to William Lendrum Mitchell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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LibriVox recording of Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense by William Lendrum Mitchell. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. William (Billy) Mitchell was a U.S. Army officer who, during World War I, came to command all U.S. Army air operations in France. He became a strong believer in air power and predicted that in the next war, bombers would be the decisive weapon. After WWI ended he became a forceful advocate for allocating funds to develop a powerful U.S. Air Force as an independent military branch. At the same time he argued for reducing the Navy's heavy spending on battleships, which he was convinced would be easily sunk by enemy aircraft. His efforts to change military policy in these areas became so obnoxious to U.S. military leadership that he was court martialed and separated from the service in 1925. The story of Mitchell's fight with the War Department was told in the 1955 motion picture "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell", where Mitchell was played by Hollywood star Gary Cooper. In the present 1921 book, "Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense", Mitchell stated his case to the public. - Summary by Ted Lienhart
Recording facts
- Recording title: Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense
- Author credits: William Lendrum Mitchell
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 19
- Listed recording duration: 5:15:55
Catalogue topics
- World War
- 1914-1918 -- aerial operations
- u.s. army air corps
- military aeronautics
- air force history
- aircraft carriers
- military aviation
- air power
Track guide
- 00 - Editor's Note — 8:32
- 01 - Foreword — 13:13
- 02 - 1. Development of Aviation in the World War — 14:46
- 03 - 2. Characteristics of Air Power — 9:51
- 04 - 3. The Application of Air Power — 15:48
- 05 - 4. Branches of Aviation and Their Use in War — 19:13
- 06 - 5. Pursuit Aviation — 11:39
- 07 - 6. Bombardment Aviation — 18:50
- 08 - 7. Attack Aviation — 8:20
- 09 - 8. Observation Aviation — 13:49
- 10 - 9. Balloons — 10:15
- 11 - 10. Airships — 20:19
- 12 - 11. Flying Personnel — 26:12
- 13 - 12. Obtaining and Distribution of Material — 17:54
- 14 - 13. Civil and Commercial Aviation — 20:59
- 15 - 14. Aviation over the Sea — 28:30
- 16 - 15. How We Should Handle Our Aeronautical Development — 25:53
- 17 - 16. What the United States Should Do Now to Establish Its Aeronautical Position — 23:07
- 18 - 17. A Glance Into the Future of Aeronautics — 8:45
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