DO NOT USE Mike Wallace's intro.
MSs Billy Mitchell at his court martial hearing.
DO NOT USE Still of Billy as a young man.
American soldiers fighting in the Philippines.
DO NOT USE Still of Billy serving in Alaska.
TLSs soldiers riding a dog sled in Alaska.
TLSs early American Wright Brothers biplane taking off.
DO NOT USE Recreation of WWI (World War One) airplane battles.
WWI (World War One) TLSs lone American fighter plane being pushed into field, then taking off; MSs American pilots standing by French fighter planes, posing for the camera; MSs pilots making preparations before take off
MSs U.S. General John J Pershing (John Pershing, Blackjack Pershing).
MSs pilots and tailgunners making preparations before take off. LSs dog fighting (aerial dogfights, aerial combat).
MS American aviators walking to cam, stopping to salute. MS Billy Mitchell pinning medal on fellow aviator.
MSs famed American flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker standing beside a plane, posing.
MSs famous German aviator Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) getting into plane, taking off.
MSs young German aviator Hermann Goering getting into plane, taking off.
WWI (World War One) battle montage: TLS explosion on battlefield; MS soldier tossing grenade; TLS tank rolling over trench. TLSs soldiers running from trench, advancing over hill & into enemy trench. Officers study field.
Billy Mitchell flies a reconnaissance mission over enemy lines. Various shot of lone plane flying. TLS German soldiers (army, infantry) marching. Mitchell s plane lands. Mitchell in cockpit.
WWI (World War One) TLSs soldiers running from trench, advancing over hill & into enemy trench. Tanks roll.
WWI (World War One) MSs American & French aviators loading bombs onto planes, getting into cockpits
DO NOT USE Recreation of WWI (World War One) airplane battles.
TLSs barnstormers (aerial stunts, barnstorming): men play instruments while riding wings of planes in flight; men do crazy stunts on planes; a plane goes underneath a narrow aqueduct.
CUs Billy Mitchell in uniform.
TLSs American warships (navy, naval, vessels) sailing, a zeppelin (dirigible) accompanying. CU of Billy Mitchell. MS U.S. President Warren G Harding waving hat & meeting with U.S. Navy officers on ship.
Billy Mitchell checking planes. MSs two-ton bombs being attached to biplanes.