Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic independence of the United States is at stake, if we do not immediately build and subsidize a commercial air-force of our own" was the warning struck by Major General M. M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, at his lecture on aviation at the Union...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...
Major General M. M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, will give an illustrated lecture on aviation this evening at 7.30 P. M. in the Living Room of the Union. In his talk the general will trace the development of flying from the days of Langley and Wright to the Fokkers and Shenandoah's of modern times. the lecture is under the auspices of the Engineering Society...
...addition to being the best informed student of the subject now living, General Patrick has had an abundance of practical experience. Starting as a Second Lieutenant in the Engineering Corps, he rose to the rank of Colonel just before the opening of the World War. He was then appointed commander of the Army Air Service in France, where he won the D.S.M. In 1921 the President made him permanent chief of the American Air Service...
...General Patrick has carried American aviation many strides forward, and holds a high position in the eyes, of his subordinates. Nothing better illustrates his character than the fact that he is the only army officer of his rank who has the privilege of wearing the insignia of a full-fledged filer. When over sixty years old he insisted on being taught to fly like any other airman, because, as he said, he wanted to experience and understand all the risks that his subordinates took. He has thus the record for age at the time-he "won his wings...