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An Incipient Mutiny: The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt
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- ISBN
- 9781640122123
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potomac Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1640122125
ISBN-13
9781640122123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038389949
Product Key Features
Book Title
Incipient Mutiny : the Story of the U. S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Military Science, Military / World War I, Military / United States, Military / Aviation
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-010306
Reviews
"Messimer has given us a riveting tale of military theory, aviation technology, bureaucratic infighting, and personal ambition. Anyone who reads this book will be entertained as well as enlightened about the early days of Army aviation."--Russell K. Brown, Journal of America's Military Past, "Drawing on long-neglected primary sources, Dwight Messimer tells the story of bureaucratic rivalry, personality clashes, and rival military theories that led to mutiny and scandal among the United States' earliest U.S. Army aviators. A riveting story in itself, An Incipient Mutiny is a valuable addition to our understanding of why the United States, the world's leader in aeronautics in 1903, fell so far behind the rest of the world in military aviation by World War 1."--Jonathan Roth, author of Roman Warfare and director of the Charles Burdick Military History Project, "In this straightforward, well-researched, and engaging work, Dwight Messimer highlights early U.S. military aviation challenges. . . . Focusing on a highly publicized court martial that facilitated Army Aviation's much-needed reorganization, the author adroitly weaves the interplay of aircraft technology and aviation administration--both in their infancy--within the context of legal precision and the full spectrum of human behaviors."--Forrest L. Marion, historian for the Air Force Historical Research Agency and author of Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015 ?, "In an intensely human story of ambitions and bureaucratic infighting, Dwight Messimer has made an outstanding contribution to aviation history through his extensive research and detailed use of primary sources, army documents and personal letters and accounts. It concludes with a masterful, edge-of-your-seat courtroom account rivaling The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell ."--Alan D. Zimm, CDR, US Navy (Ret.), author of Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions, "With An Incipient Mutiny , Dwight Messimer has broadened our understanding of American aviation in World War I."--James Streckfuss, Michigan War Studies Review, "In this straightforward, well-researched, and engaging work, Dwight Messimer highlights early U.S. military aviation challenges. . . . Focusing on a highly-publicized court martial that facilitated Army Aviation's much-needed reorganization, the author adroitly weaves the interplay of aircraft technology and aviation administration--both in their infancy--within the context of legal precision and the full spectrum of human behaviors."--Forrest L. Marion, historian for the Air Force Historical Research Agency and author of Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015 ?, "In this straightforward, well-researched, and engaging work, Dwight Messimer highlights early U.S. military aviation challenges. . . . Focusing on a highly publicized court martial that facilitated Army Aviation's much-needed reorganization, the author adroitly weaves the interplay of aircraft technology and aviation administration--both in their infancy--within the context of legal precision and the full spectrum of human behaviors."--Forrest L. Marion, historian for the Air Force Historical Research Agency and author of Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015, "In an intensely human story of ambitions and bureaucratic infighting, Dwight Messimer has made an outstanding contribution to aviation history through his extensive research and detailed use of primary sources, army documents, and personal letters and accounts. It concludes with a masterful, edge-of-your-seat courtroom account rivaling The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell ."--Alan D. Zimm, Cdr, U.S. Navy (Ret.), author of Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions, "In an intensely human story of ambitions and bureaucratic infighting, Dwight Messimer has made an outstanding contribution to aviation history through his extensive research and detailed use of primary sources, army documents, and personal letters and accounts. It concludes with a masterful, edge-of-your-seat courtroom account rivaling The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell ."--Cdr. Alan D. Zimm, U.S. Navy (Ret.), author of Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions, "Drawing on long-neglected primary sources, Dwight Messimer tells the story of bureaucratic rivalry, personality clashes, and rival military theories that led to mutiny and scandal among the United States' earliest U.S. Army aviators. A riveting story in itself, An Incipient Mutiny is a valuable addition to our understanding of why the United States, the world's leader in aeronautics in 1903, fell so far behind the rest of the world in military aviation by World War I."--Jonathan Roth, author of Roman Warfare and director of the Charles Burdick Military History Project, " An Incipient Mutiny offers the reader candid histories of forgotten figures such as Adolphus Washington Greely, Paul Beck, Charles DeForest Chandler, and many others."--Robert S. Davis, New York Journal of Books
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Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
UG573.M47 2020
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