Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell was a World War I aviation pioneer and visionary ultimately court martialed for insubordination but vindicated by how military aviation unfolded throughout the 20th Century. He was right on paratroopers, transoceanic and supersonic flight, and a single Department of Defense over the branches of the military instead of a War Department for the Army and a Navy Department for the Navy. So why does he remain a controversial figure among military historians?

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