Word: ostfriesland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitchell vision been more devoutly cherished or more openly defended than by Harold Lee George. In 1921, when General Mitchell was finally allowed, under smothering restrictions, to test the battle worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...