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Ohio farm and barn
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Ohio barn
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Air Force Museum
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Atrium at Air Force Museum
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AFIT Memorial at USAF Museum
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Icarus
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Icarus at USAF Museum
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Display board at USAF Museum, WPAFB. Info on the XB-15.
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B-19 info board at USAF Museum
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XB-19 Rear Fuselage already cut off. the XB-19 awaits final destruction for scrap. 1949. The Air Force Museum was not authorized to acquire and preserve full-size aircraft until 1954.
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The pilot and co-pilot of the XB-19 on its first flight, LT COL Stanley Umstead and MAJ Howard G. Bunker, standing by one o fhte plane's main wheels.
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XB-19, the largest airplane in the Army Air Corps, 1939
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XB-19 landing gear wheel and tire, sign
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"Brothers of the Hill-Top: Benign Order of Bureaucrats." Display caption: Original of editorial cartoon dated Sept. 29, 1925, indicative of the great public support afforded to Mitchell in his defiance of the War and Navy Departments.
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USAF Museum: Mitchell's "famous prediction of war with Japan" 1924. "He foretold how a war would start. He stated that a war would begin with a surprise attack by Japanese forces on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in conjunction with an assault on the Philippines."
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Dayton Journal 1925, Billy Mitchell Warning
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"WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY MEAN TO DO WITH THESE AIR BATTLESHIPS? ... Whoever Controls the AIR can control the WORLD"
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This Will Occur Unless
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Billy Mitchell at Bolling Field, DC, 1925
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Billy Mitchell Display at USAF Museum
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Curtis LeMay
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In the Big Hall at the Museum of the Air Force
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F-22 Raptor and the Boeing Stealth Demonstration Vehicle, secret stealth project known as the "Bird of Prey"
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F-22 Raptor display board
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F-22 Raptor at the Museum of the Air Force
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Museum of the Air Force board on the Bird of Prey stealth plane hanging overhead.
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Global Hawk and Predator
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Notches on the side of the Global Hawk, indicating successful operational missions.
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Cold War Gallery at Museum of the Air Force
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Museum of the Air Force display
