Название: Our air force, the keystone of national defense
Автор:  William Mitchell
Издательство: New York, E. P. Dutton & company
Страниц: 328
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 mb
Качество: хорошее
Язык: английский
Год: 1921

BRIGADIER GENERAL WM. MITCHELL, the author  of this book, enlisted as a private in the Volunteer Infantry at the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898; and after serving in the ranks for twenty days, he was made an officer at the age of eighteen. He was the youngest officer in the army  during the Spanish War. He later served in the  Philippine Insurrection; again in Cuba in 1906 and 1907; and along the Mexican Border. General Mitchell has traveled widely in Asia, India  and Europe, studying the military systems in the armies of the various countries. He is a Distinguished graduate of  of the Army School of the  Line, a graduate of the Army Staff College, and  he served as a member of our General Staff before the entrance of the United States into the  World War.