The movie points out the obvious incompetence of the military elite at the time. History bears out much of what Mitchell was stating. A well done version of how the military railroaded Mitchell with their pompous rules and regulations. It's actually amazing that we succeeded in the face of such stupidity. Thanks for sharing the video.

@howardjolley2215

4 ай бұрын

The worst of it is, it continues to today.

@kylewood8327

4 ай бұрын

And it hasn’t changed much as stupidity still hails big today.

@Clydesirota

4 ай бұрын

@@howardjolley2215Yes, but the issue is much larger as the country becomes increasingly under the control of government and private bureaucracies e.g. elitist schools. And no IM NOT Maga I’m a very liberal liberal. Have faith and trust in American ability. Unfettered to as little a degree as possible by bureaucracies.

@garyteague9555

4 ай бұрын

And stupidity still reigns supreme in our leadership

@user-bu2ro8vg8b

4 ай бұрын

Gosh let's every mid level military guy have unlimited funds to play about with his pet project and lie and steal military supplies to prove his point. Because he knows he is right. And deify the chain of command.... what could possibly go wrong. The rewriting of history is strong with this one.

The foresight of this man. A man before his time.

I watched this movie a few years back. Gary Cooper presents a masterfully subtle performance. Based on a true story, it exemplifies one man's belief versus stalwart opposition to his vision of the future.

I was in the Civil Air Patrol as a cadet. One of our milestone awards is called the Billy Mitchell award for the rank C/2ndLT.

My father, an Air Force colonel, loved this movie.

Rod Steiger the prosecutors expert assistant at the trial gets Best Actor award from me. Enjoyed this movie and cast.👍 (Mitchell died in 1936 not in time to see his vindication five years later. But he is remembered now as the real founder of the modern American Air Force.)

@rescuepetsrule6842

3 ай бұрын

Steiger was so good. I just rewatched two of his best, In The Heat of the Night and his phenomenal portrayal of a psychotic movie producer in The Big Knife (Ida Lupino/Jack Palance). He became the people he played and never got the credit he deserved.

my god the cast in movie is absolutely star-studded.

Any movie with Gary Cooper is a good movie, period! Some of the older actors made nothing but good movies, a very far cry from today. Billy Mitchell was a true American soldier, hero, icon .. men like him don't exist today, in my opinion. He was instrumental in procuring funding for the air corps and in honor of his many achievements, the B-25 "Mitchell" was named after him. That's another story in history. This is a good movie to watch if a person has an interest in this subject, there sure are a lot of familiar faces .. young faces .. in the cast!

@adamnoman4658

4 ай бұрын

I rather think that Cooper is miscast in this role: Col. Mitchell, aged 46, was a seemingly assured peacock of a military man with a chest full of medals, whereas Cooper's a rather tired-looking 54 here -- and he acts it. - -

@biglebowski5737

4 ай бұрын

Carry Pooper!

To those who don’t know…there is some great old films like this on utube at your convenience

Great Movie and Actors.... What a foresight that happened and still evolving to happen.... A Man with the VISION and vision of restrictions....

There has always been resistance to military genius. Why I myself as a young Sailor put in a Request Chit to "Paint Hanger 1 at Moffett Field California a Light Golden Brown, so as to disguise it as a large Hostess Twinkie from the air". Of course, the short-sighted leaders in the command rejected my request. I feel for you Billy Mitchell, I understand your frustrations.

@daleburrell6273

3 ай бұрын

...YOU STINK!!!

@IanDavidOnDU

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant idea. Because Twinkies last forever.

Based on true events, but . . . 'Hollywoodfied'. Still an enjoyable film, thanks for posting it.

Wow what a great film. I can’t believe that this movie isn’t played on TV late at night.

This is a great movie. Mitchell was a visionary long before it ever happened. Without him, we would have lost WWII had he had not fought for air power.

For me this is the most interesting film I have watched for years. Based on a true story

The proper title of this film is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" from 1955, and that's a young Elizabeth (Bewitched) Montgomery as Margaret.

@michaelmahoney5251

3 ай бұрын

And Rod Stiger was a prosecuting attorney.

@johnstudd4245

3 ай бұрын

And Jack Lord, Mac garret of Hawaii 5 O. As the naval officer killed in a crash of an airship. That was Elizabeth Montgomery's first movie role. Two small roles in this film that would later be some of the biggest names in television. Also Peter Graves, and Darren McGavin, one of my personal favorites.

Darren McGavin, Jack Lord, Peter Graves, Elizabeth Montgomery. All future stars of the own TV shows. Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hawaii Five O, Mission Impossible and Bewitched.

@laurenetemple-link5660

3 ай бұрын

Hawaii50myUnclewroteepisodes4, PeterGraves"made"missionimpossable&bewhiched_wasthemostdemonicshowthatairedwheniwasakid..itwastheprecurcertothedemonshowsoftoday.

It is NOT the duty of an officer to give unquestioned obedience, such a thing leads to things like the My Lai Massacre. Officers are expected to use their own judgment on whether their orders are legal, as are all other soldiers. The prosecutor is who's in the wrong.

@lindaweber5599

2 ай бұрын

And still it happens.

@Richard-rz8gt

Ай бұрын

Lt Calley was a scapegoat.

Elizabeth Montgomery too ;

@xzqzq

4 ай бұрын

She was nice, too. See my earlier comment.

Loved this entire cast. Ralph Bellamy, Peter Graves, Elizabeth Montgomery, and most of the rest. Fred Clark was great in Twilight Zone.

My father remembered being on deck of the Sub Tender Orion watching the Navy's brand new F2H Banshees making mock attack runs on the ships. The AA crews could hardly track their guns fast enough as the jets flew over. My father just shook his head knowing the ships were just floating targets.

The swamp has been around for a long time. The good lord blesses America with men like this from time to time.

@KR72534

2 ай бұрын

It wasn’t the swamp that failed America in the 1930s; it was the isolationists, the Trump voters of that time.

@KR72534

2 ай бұрын

He who doesn’t learn from history is doomed to repeat it.

@KR72534

2 ай бұрын

The swamp protects you. trump wants to return to rule by the rich with no “swamp” to protect us.

@KR72534

2 ай бұрын

What us the swamp. It is the law and regulatory regime that Trump wants to destroy so that he will have total power. The choice is America or TRUMP.

Wow, there were a lot of big names in this. Both real life men whose real contributions still resonate in our military today. And also a lot of great actors who went on to become big names in the big screen. I've heard about this movie for years and regrettably didnt get a chance to see it before now. Glad to finally watch it.

*fBilly Mitchel WAS RIGHT!* (and the Japanese heard him loud and Clear) Yamamoto was assigned to another tour in the United States, first as an aide to an admiral and then as a naval attaché in Washington (1926-28) so he was in DC when these events took place and he was a student at HARVARD from 1919 to 1921 Years later, as a naval attaché at the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C. he would have been VERY aware of the Mitchel Sandal and the warnings that were posted in the newspapers at the time

@geronimo5537

2 ай бұрын

I found the accusation that the Japanese would attack was a little reaching in the movie. But that is definitely the public knowledge that Yamamoto took inspiration from. Perhaps as a greater irony to the nation attacked. As well as a military man appreciating another who's nation would not listen to the obvious.

@rickcoona

2 ай бұрын

@@geronimo5537 Yamamomo was an avid poker player according to those who knew him at Harvard so it is quite plausible they he would have played poker with the navy and army guys as they did run in similar social circles at the time.

The court martial was unfair..Mr Mitchell was right all along

Using the arguments that Major Allen Gullion used in regards to obedience to duty and to unquestioningly obeying orders he would have been an excellent Defense Attorney for every defendant at the Post WW2 Nuremberg trials.

Billy Mitchell did predict Japan attacking the United States after touring Japan in 1910 due to the lack of resources. He also predicted rockets (V1-V2) to attack cities in future wars

I love how Dimitri Tiomkin's music is instantly recognizable.

A very good movie. Gary Cooper is at his best in this movie.

Shows the udder incompetence of our military leaders of that time, unfortunately their names have been lost to history, their names should forever be used to describe failure and incompetence.

@marbleman52

4 ай бұрын

@user-vr7eh5zf9b....I am not quite sure who you are referring to, but the military leaders of that time who were against Mitchell's ideas are well known. If you want to listen to a good factual account of the life of Billy Mitchell, I suggest you look up a KZreadr : Ward Carroll. He is a retired navy F-14 backseat navigator, weapons officer and has a great channel. Mr. Carroll just did a factual episode about Billy Mitchell and his court Martial.

@xzqzq

4 ай бұрын

I still don't understand how the military was caught flat-footed at Pearl Harbor in 1941, since the a Japanese attack was a virtual repeat on their attack on the Russians in 1905.

@andrew3203

2 ай бұрын

@@xzqzq , when at peace, a surprise attack has a big chance. USA was not at war, there was a group of planes expected to return to Hawaii around that time, so no radar alert, etc. Doesn't compare at all with 1905, except in strategical consideration of crippling the nearest fleet so Japan obtains time to achieve the land offensive without naval problems, then deal with the second fleet, etc. But while Russia lost 2 fleets and peaced out, USA lost hundreds of ships in WW2 and built thousands more.

As others pointed out, the actual title is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell," 1955. IMDB doesn't even list "Skyward Rebellion" as an alternate title in some markets.

@eaglesfly5236

3 ай бұрын

Would you prefer the correct title and NOT available on YT?

The Margarette charactor at 13:00 is Elizebeth Montgomery of Bewitched.

They laughed at him when he said that submarines would attack Pearl harbor or we would be attacked by the Japanese😊😅😂. It's only fitting that the only aircraft capable of making it to Japan in order to make a retaliatory first strike on the Homeland was the b-25 Mitchell piloted by Dolittle 🇺🇸👍

@narajuna

2 ай бұрын

Yeah even TOP Brass can be very obtuse, traitorous to but own ego before Country safety.

You have to think that Mitchell got the last laugh at those who court martialed him, as decades later, the B-25 bomber was nick-named after him, which was the bomber that was chosen for the incredibly dangerous Doolittle Raid of April, 1942!

@389383

4 ай бұрын

Chuckling in the cemetery.

Today, Mitchell would be protected as whistleblower and cherished. But Secretary of Defense has denied his posthumous promotion as late as in '40-s - well after his opinions were avenged, well after B-25 was named after him. This movie puts forward the exemplary man, who put his integrity and the values of the service above his career and personal matters.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Baloney. Mitchell was wrong every which way. For one, he opposed aircraft carriers.

@christophercoupe5006

3 ай бұрын

@@redskindan78 Why would oppose carriers if he foresaw Japan using them?

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean. Mitchell argued that the US did not need carriers because long range bombers could protect the continental US against any enemy. Could the USAAF B-17 force have protected Pearl Harbor against the Japanese Strike Force? @@christophercoupe5006

@MarkFranklin-ws5jf

3 ай бұрын

Baloney sandwiches! Your certainly WackoDan,not redskindan

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Mitchell did not foresee anyone using aircraft carriers. The USN, the IJN, and the RN (against hostility from the RAF) believed in aircraft carriers. How many Japanese warships did the B-17 sink? A movie is not meant to be a history book. Mitchell firmly believed in high-level long-range bombers@@christophercoupe5006

Rod Stager towards the end blew my mind

The military of all the branches has changed in many ways for the betterment of the services. Much of this change was brought about by men and women like William Michael. Our nation will always owe a great debt to these people that take duty to this nation above all else. duty, honor, country.

There is a scene in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard says, "There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders."

The actor playing General Douglas MacArthur (Dayton Lummis) is the spitting image of him.

Wow, what a movie! Thank you for the upload!

And he was right about Pearl Harbor. He was right about the Japanese. And that planes will fly faster then sound.. A sad story this trial. many a dead could have been averted, had those blockheads just listened.

I liked the irony of a Japanese officer watching ths battleship test.

@bruanlokisson8615

2 ай бұрын

I think they did that on purpose, to show that Japan took air power very seriously.

@1:07:50 Did anyone else notice that the pilots, Billy Mitchell and Hap Arnold, are not wearing the high collar uniform but instead the fold-down collar with dress shirt and necktie because the high collar rubbed the neck raw on pilots in the cockpit when they looked around (this was before the radar days)?

I had no idea there was a movie made with Samantha Stevens, Carl Kolchak, Jim Phelps and John Robinson in it. 😁👍

@user-db6og8rl3s

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget "Hawaii Five-O"Jack Lord and "Mission Impossible" Peter Graves

@fokkerd3red618

3 ай бұрын

Elizabeth Montgomery was one hot tamale.

This film is packed with stars!

@vincejackson730

4 ай бұрын

Then I recommend Dive Bomber (1940). Error Flynn, Fred McMurray, Ralph Belamy and a very young USS Enterprise in her only pre-war appearance on color film.

@Military-Museum-LP

4 ай бұрын

@@vincejackson730. Thank you. I will definitely look for this.

@Military-Museum-LP

4 ай бұрын

@@vincejackson730. I don’t know all their real names but Samantha from bewitched, Steve from Hawaii 5 O, the older duke brother from Trading places, its just a few faces. I’ve never seen a more star packed film that this.

@vincejackson730

4 ай бұрын

@1-st-CAV Then you will have a treat. Watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Full of comedic legends. Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, The Three Stooges (with Curly Joe), to name a few.

@kurtgodel5236

4 ай бұрын

@@vincejackson730 Error Flynn

This is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" (1955)

@robertwilliams533

19 күн бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. This leaving off of tiles and credits is teally annoying. I think you would agree.

What a cast. What a story. How accurate his insight was.

This takes place in 1925. Just think 25-30 years later starting the test flights for breaking the sound barrier.

@maytagmark2171

4 ай бұрын

That 30 years later would be American efforts to break the sound barrier. The Germans we already making those attempts before and during the war. And Germany had entered space (the first to do so) during the war with their V missiles that were exceeding the speed of sound.

@flybobbie1449

4 ай бұрын

@@maytagmark2171 Well sound barrier already broken the V-2 rockets.

@maytagmark2171

4 ай бұрын

I said that. @@flybobbie1449

Oh what a great actor Rod Steiger was!

"The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" 1955..... 👏

Thoroughly enjoyed this film. Thought Cooper and Steiger were good. Thanks👍👍👍

An excellent movie. Thank you! Typical and a rotten shame what was done to Col. Mitchell. I will have to look up & see how close this movie came to the truth. Greetings from Canada!

@fred1barb

27 күн бұрын

50-50 facts and entertainment

@nedhill1242

26 күн бұрын

General Mitchell and his predictions were correct. You have heard of Pearl Harbor and December 7, 1941?

@fred1barb

26 күн бұрын

@@nedhill1242 Gosh do you mean that harbor that is so popular with Japanese tourists where some Navy ships accidentally sank on December 7th? I was an Army aviator with a tour in Vietnam and I am familiar with the consequences that budgetary decisions, training doctrine and interservice rivalry can have for troops in combat. I am also by education and experience tolerably familiar with how large organizations tend to work. The Army is not a 100% top down organization, but it tends to require its officers to observe discipline, to follow orders and regulations. Then and now it is an offense use "contemptuous speech" against the President, elected state officials, and superior officers. Service members are limited in their freedom to make public comments on a range of topics. Mitchel was as bound by these rules as an PFC, He chose to disobey orders and to break the rules. What he should have done was to resign first. A man can be right, as he was, but still be wrong in the way he goes about selling his ideas, as he was. As a general officer, he knew better. The movie has has almost all of the details of the sinking of the battleship wrong. The Army adopted parachutes around the end of WW1. Plus many more plot devices added for storytelling.

@elizabethmartin4328

14 күн бұрын

Go Canadians ! ! !

As Warden Hodges said in an episode of Dads Army;- "I knew it was some PERISHING General!!!".

Darren Mcgavin, Night Stalker, awesome.

Movie real name is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell"

Incredible that this is very true, air power was fought against over and over, basically only Japan took it seriously for oceans and Germany took it serious for their blitzkrieg. America had to fight for every millimeter of invention for the airpower and only once war actually broke out MAJOR improvements were made at breakneck speed. The British had some good luck with their engines and built good airframes around it, but they were an island nation and threw money into it where other allied powers wouldn't.

@redskindan78

2 ай бұрын

USN had built eight aircraft carriers by December, 1941, if we include Hornet. She was working up in the Chesapeake from Norfolk. Our navy had kept up a steady evolution of aircraft, something the Royal Navy had not been able to do during nearly 20 years when the RAF controlled all British aircraft procurement. Like Billy Mitchell, the RAF thought that aircraft carriers were unimportant. The RAF did, however, work hard at developing fighter planes, like the magnificent 8-gun Hurricane, the fighter that won the Battle of Britain. After 1938, the Fleet Air Arm had to rebuild itself almost from scratch. If Mitchell had had his way, the USN would have been as far behind as the FAA had been in 1939.

We need a billy Mitchell today

Gary Cooper is the perfect every man hero. He can take it.

AMAZING!! This movie is exactly like "The Cort-Marshel of Billy Mitchell", now isn't that something?

... The letter dated December 14th 1923 ( Timestamp: 1:26:32 ) predicted the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

How sick is it that the man that predicted the cowardly Pearl Harbor attack got booted from his Army. MacArthur was already showing his true colors, and Pershing was the epitome of a stiff old man living in the past. RIP, GENERAL Mitchell!

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Mitchell did NOT predict Pearl Harbor. The USN had practiced bombing Pearl in several Fleet Problems before WW2. The Royal Navy did it to the Italian fleet at Taranto. Mitchell opposed aircraft carriers, and would have take all the aircraft from the US Navy.

@Anashadk

3 ай бұрын

All military get their behaviour from past experiances. Things are little better today. Aircraft carriers are ok if you target a non-peer enemy, but any nuclear power can rid the earth of all aircraft carriers in one day, and I might add, that Ukraine has shown that non-peer countries, can also fight against modern navies now.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Think about WW2. Mitchell's long range high-level bombers never hit a moving warship. The Japanese Betts hit PoW and Repulse with torpedoes. The B-17s were useless againist the Japanese navy. @@Anashadk

I thought I saw Jack Lord in a cameo. Peter Graves and Darren McGavin? This film is overloaded with future stars.

@geoffreydavisiii7678

3 ай бұрын

You did! As that Lt. Commander in Pajamas.

@markroeder2491

3 ай бұрын

Was that Elizabeth Montgomery, Margaret the wife of Zach the naval officer from Washington D.C.?

@cdrocrossdiscovery

3 ай бұрын

I think you're right!@@markroeder2491

@ictpilot

3 ай бұрын

​@@markroeder2491Yes.

@carltonstidsen8806

2 ай бұрын

Jack Lord was "Commander Lansdowne" in the first scene

Wow! Superb movie. Old is always gold

Should have been Re-enstated as a 4 star general

Just goes to show that courts have never been just or seeking the truth, and that power/money corrupts.

One of the finest I have seen in my Life as War Movies. The present state of sir power and supremacy is certainly the greatest commendation for the centric idea.

I would like to know what these men thought when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

8 күн бұрын

Many of these old men were dead or retired....

@thatguyinelnorte

7 күн бұрын

The trial was in 1925 or so. Look up the fleet problems. Then look up similar wargames from every nation and you realize no one has an exclusive on being stupid... or brilliant... Mitchell wanted to get rid of the whole navy.

@JohnSmith-pl2bk

7 күн бұрын

@@thatguyinelnorte Probably for the sake of the nation he wanted to clean out the old dead wood at the top of the Navy and Army who tried to commit their men to fight the next war like they fought the last war.... Mitchell had the vision of the future war...and he was right. It always seems arrogance to others when you are right........ and they have to admit it....

@allangreenwood7992

Күн бұрын

It's a big I told ya so

love these classics

There is a memorial to Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning DSC.RN in St Lawrence church Bradfield Essex (UK) stating "The Admiralty wish you to know what great service he performed .......demonstrating the landing of an aeroplane on a ship underway...It will make Aeroplanes indispensable to a fleet and possibly revolutionise Naval Warfare....." When I saw this memorial I thought 25 years later there was Pearl Harbour and the battle of the Midway how right they were.

@user-zu2sj6wj7r

3 ай бұрын

Was actually Scotsman in RAF Eric "winkle" Brown who was first to land and take off from a carrier.

@peterhartmann6545

3 ай бұрын

@@user-zu2sj6wj7r had a look at Wikipedia it has Eugene Ely USA first to take off and land on a ship at anchor 1911. Dunning first to land on ship underway (at Scapa flow) 1917. And assuming Eric Melrose Brown is the same person you referred to, he claims the first to land a jet 1945. Whilst I was aware that seaplanes had taken off from ships they would land on the sea and be winched aboard. I was unaware that balloons had been launched from ships as spotters. I wouldn't have known about Dunning had I not walked the Essex Way. More info/further reading around this subject would be gratefully received.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Naval aircraft string from aircraft carriers. NOT Mitchell's beloved long-range bombers.

My step-great-grandfather. The military is only as good as the people who lead it..

I always liked this movie, and it is a showcase for a lot of up and coming stars of the 60s and 70s...however even as a kid I knew this was a PR piece for the relatively new USAF in 1955. A force only broken out as a seperate department 8 years before....the same year the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs were founded. Mitchell's memory is used as a martyred Nostradomus of US military foresight...and the eventual wisdom post WW2 of the creation of the DOD and USAF...as well as the security agencies like the CIA. Such other movies came out in the mid 50s too. As to history...it is sorta right, with a lot of time compression and fictional encounters or soliloquies. A lot of Mitchell's predictions are compressed into 1925 or before, but they are taken from letters and press interviews as a civilian all the way up to his death in the mid 30s. The Japanese attack was predicted in that decade not the 20s. It was already a concern of the Navy and Army as Japan had greatly expanded their aircraft carrier fleet...as did we (even without Billy Mitchell's guidance). Japan had also started alliance talks with Germany by then and was engaged in empire expansion.

@MicMc539

4 ай бұрын

QUOTE. ''Japan had also started alliance talks with Germany by then and was engaged in empire expansion.'' That would be from a Yank textbook I take it? In 50 years of study I've seen NOTHING to suggest that, (please cite if you can). Hitler was more surprised than the Yanks by Pearl Harbor, that's a verifiable fact. Hitler finally declared War on the U.S.on December 11th, because FDR was too gutless/greedy/immoral to. (FDR wanting the U.S. to continue profiting from both Warring sides, just like today's U.S. supplying Ukraine weapons while still buying Russian Oil and Uranium) FDR and his Japanese Oil embargo made sure the Japanese had no option but to take the Dutch East Indies Oil fields/neutralize Pearl Harbor. Thus FDR (inadvertently and amateurishly) dragged the Yanks into another European War attempting to stop the Japanese Economic/Military expansion into S.E.Asia. I can understand why the Yanks keep going back to the Last War they 'Won'. It was the high point of their Military Prowess and strength, since followed by near 80 years of loss, shame, humiliation, War Crimes and Global ridicule. It also explains the U.S. current Political/ Strategic missteps and madness. ''Having been shamefully late to the last two World Wars, the Yanks are determined to be early for the next.'' Peace.

@STho205

4 ай бұрын

@@MicMc539 quite a diatribe...but Japan started alliance discussions with Germany in 1935.

@MicMc539

4 ай бұрын

@@STho205 ''Some guy on the Internet'' is your cite? Dumbocracy in action. Peace.

@romad357

4 ай бұрын

@@MicMc539 The Tripartite Pact (a.k.a. "The Pact of Steel") between Germany, Italy, and Japan was signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940. Hitler declared war on these United States on December 11, 1941 because of this pact.

@MicMc539

4 ай бұрын

@@romad357 Germany's attack on Poland, Italy's attack on Libya, and Japan's attack on the U.S. and British/Dutch Empires all occurred without ANY co-ordination between members of the Tripartite Pact. None. Regarding Japans attack, Hitler preferred to keep the U.S. neutral in Europe and advised the Japs to negotiate, which they did until the Yanks left them no choice. You must know (unlike the OP), the Yanks considered the Brits as their only Naval opponent all through the 1920's-30's? Screwing the Japanese seriously started after 3 September 1939 and finally paid off 7 December 1941.

This Movies Shows You can do everything write in the normal Code of Faith and History will reward those with legendary stories.

did you see that little Japanese officer taking notes? You can bet he knew Billy was right.

1:26:10 “… you seem to write that Pearl Harbor has no adequate defense against air defense”. 😂

Incredible how green and park like the scenes were of old D.C. by the Reflecting Pool.

@normanalvarez5751

2 ай бұрын

I noticed that too beautiful

As usual old men in Washington rolling the dice with the lives of young men.

@thatguyinelnorte

7 күн бұрын

Every nation does that. Don't be proud. They're doing it in your name.

Thank you very much for the movie. 👍

One of the lessons we should learn from this movie, also Spitfire starring Leslie Howard and David Niven, is conventional wisdom is usually wrong. If it can be dreamed it can be invented. Militarily speaking this is why DARPA was established. One of the reasons the MOSSAD is so successful is because they are open to ideas that most intelligence agencies would consider insane.

@ianmcsherry5254

4 ай бұрын

Apart from them completely failing to note HAMAS preparing for an attack and sitting twiddling their thumbs - despite observers at the border repeatedly informing them of exercises and prep to breach the border en masse. Those observers lost their lives. Maybe they just let it happen, eh?

Billy Mitchell was a courageous figure who had strength in his convictions. Strategically he was visionary, but his analysis of airpower v naval power was proven wrong. Mitchell, as the movie points out, envisioned large formations of bombers saturation bombing surface fleets to destruction as if they were cities. The Pacific war proved that altitude saturation bombing of maneuvering warships with a full head of speed was almost totally ineffectual, especially if there was a layer of fighter protection. In fact it was the innovation of tactical aircraft that could perform a vertical or near vertical dive on a surface target, adjusting the dive to the ships evasive maneuvers, ( and requiring very highly skilled and trained pilots) that proved the decisive role of naval air power. This technique by the way was not an innovation of the Luftwaffe, but of the United States Navy in the mid to late 1930s, which the Luftwaffe adopted.

@user-ry6hd4kx1j

4 ай бұрын

The Proximity Fuse and Radar had not yet invented either.

@jrt818

4 ай бұрын

Land-based bombers did sink HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.

@zachgarver7922

4 ай бұрын

Again, as I said, they were sunk by land based nells but were armed with torpedoes and flew a low level torpedo profile. The horizontal bombing attack did not score any hits. @@jrt818

@redman2989

4 ай бұрын

I'm glad to see someone else realize this, rather than just blindly singing his praises. I respect Mitchell for standing by his convictions and his visionary look on airpower, but he as many theorist was often wrong. It is a shame what happened to him, but if he had gotten his way the USN would most likely have been ill prepared to fight a war in the Pacific in 1941. He stressed above all else, a unified air force, including naval aviation, and we see how well that worked for the British in the interwar period. They went from the leading figure in naval aviation to the 3rd ranked power in that field, as the arm would become the red headed step child of the RAF. They finally got the Fleet Air Arm back shortly before the war but the damage had been done. The RN carrier arm had very few flying officers above the rank of Commander, their doctrine was almost non existent, and they severely lacked planes and crews. Even his predicted Pearl Harbor attack which everyone credits to him, ignores that he predicted that it would be done by land based aircraft; referring to carriers at the time as a sideshow. While it's one thing to stress his fight with the old traditionalist, or the battleship admirals resistant to change. What is less stressed, is how he was opposed by those founding members and visionaries within naval aviation circles.

So many familiar faces in this movie, just younger than I remembered!

Interesting movie. The matters of human imperfection it highlights make it kind of timeless.

There is a reason I despise many lawyers and old has-beens. We all know they were wrong and Mitchell right. When will they ever learn?

@pete9501

3 ай бұрын

Only after a bloody disaster.

Such great actors!

Post WW1 budget shrinkage was a real issue, branches of the military (interwar era) had budgets cut so low the military could scarsely operate. Then you got the riots from the 1932 Bonus Army

@rescuepetsrule6842

3 ай бұрын

Which gave the monster known as MacArthur a chance to storm in shooting everything up, an act he bragged about later. In WWI, nobody wanted to sign up after hearing what carnage was taking place. Our Gov. lied and promised the bonuses- one of our greatest shames. It never stops, either.

They were very Short sighted back then. Billy Mitchell was 100% correct in all his predictions. I hope the military learned a valuable lesson from that. I also wonder what Gen. MacArthur thought about considering he was on that Panel, when Pearl Harbor actually got bombed on 12-7-1941 !

@laurenetemple-link5660

3 ай бұрын

Exactly20yrs

@dougerrohmer

3 ай бұрын

He obviously didn't learn anything. The Japanese bombed MaCArseholes aircraft as they were lined up in straight lines hours after he received warning that Pearl Harbour was bombed.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Mitchell argued that high-level bombers made it unnecessary to have aircraft carriers. The B-17 never hit Japanese warships, except in USAAF propaganda about the Battle of Midway.

@dougerrohmer

3 ай бұрын

@@redskindan78 That's true, but it's also true that Japanese Betty bombers hit ships fairly regularly. Did they bomb from a lower altitude?

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

The Bettys annihilated the British Force Z -- Prince of Wales and Repulse -- with torpedoes. That was their main weapon against warships. They also bombed from a lower altitude than the B-17, Note, as well, that the USAAF B-25s were ineffective at "Mitchell altitude" so they added a cluster of machine gines to the nose and "skip bombed" from near the surface. See the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.@@dougerrohmer

It wasn't so much of a trial, but more of a kangaroo court. Mitchel lost, but proved to be right in the end. Joe S

The name of this movie is , The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell 1955

Wonder if the court realized Gen Mitchell was right after Pearl Harbor attack. 18 years later

@whammo11224

4 ай бұрын

They did. That's why they named a bomber after him!

@pimpompoom93726

4 ай бұрын

Most of the General Officers judging him were dead by then, with the exception of Douglas MacArthur of course.

@hawkthorn33

4 ай бұрын

Not until the attack. It was still held that the battleship was the queen of the sea. That a naval engagement would ultimately come down to the battleship. It was held that at the time, Pearl was not subjectable to torpedo attack as an air drop torpedo would drop too low. Ours did therefore no one else could either. Personally I always thought the attack was a blessing in disguise. If our fleet was out to sea with Aircraft carriers being only a support role, the loss of life would far exceed the 2400 that were killed during the attack. A full crew as 2000 per battleship give or take. Not to mention any ships lost were lost forever. Only 4 ships at Pearl did not see action by end of the war.

At the first minute, he's flying a grumman duck j2f who did its first fly in 1936. So, 15 years after these supposed events. What a mistake.

@hurricane7950

4 ай бұрын

Minor error in a enthralling true story

@peterhill8398

4 ай бұрын

Such things happen quite often. In the film High Road to China, the central characters fly Stampe biplanes which were designed in the late 1940s but the film is set in China in the early 1920s.

Nothing has changed in all the years since that trial.

...IT'S JUST AS WELL THAT BILLY MITCHELL DIDN'T LIVE TO SEE WW2: THERE'S A LIMIT TO HOW MUCH SATISFACTION YOU CAN TAKE OUT OF SAYING: "I TOLD YOU SO!" AND THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT GENERAL PATTON, AND THE 'COLD WAR'!!!

@laurenetemple-link5660

3 ай бұрын

Yes,General George Patton and Billy Michelle... Made out of the same cloth, Great Americans.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

Mitchell had no use for USN air, and for aircraft carriers. He insisted that long range bombers could protect the US out across oceans.

The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor was a copy of a British attack on the Italian fleet.

@gordonwood1594

2 ай бұрын

The RN destroyed two fleets in harbour in 1940. The French and the Italian. The USA was the only country not taking note.

The amphibian shown in the first scene is a Grumman duck--which was not yet built until the mid 30's

@JohnSmith-yv6eq

3 ай бұрын

There would be no models of any contemporary stringbag seaplanes that would not be laughed at by the audience...

@nzs316

3 ай бұрын

Noted but, why put it in thinking no one would notice...unless they had a crystal ball and foresaw the future.

@redskindan78

3 ай бұрын

And used by the US Navy to rescue air crews shot down off Japanese-held islands.

Good film about a great patriot, shame they start the film showing an aircraft that did not exist until a decade later, the Curtis SOC Seagull did not enter service until 1934, seems the US film industry shows the same disdain to historical accuracy as the US military elite did to their heroic servicemen and women.

@brianmorris8045

4 ай бұрын

What this and similar films did show, was the 'old fuddy duddies' in the army, and navy, who couldn't see progress with the idea of air support. Fortunately there were people like Mitchell who had great vision for the air service.

The “i write two letter a week (or is it day) sometimes two reminds me of the movie shawshank redemption with Andy trying to inprove the prison library…. Wonder if this movie is where Stephen King got the idea

What a cast!

The Major is absolutely wrong. Any soldier marine, coast guard, sailor has a postive duty to questions orders that either unethical, or immoral without penalty.

@petergeorge2232

Ай бұрын

Yes, but with a high bar. Certainly anything that violates international law or human rights. But not for policy differences regarding defense strategy.

@steveburton5825

Ай бұрын

Nuremburg proved that "I was just following orders" is not a defence. He was fighting over the lives of his men... not "policy differences". SMH

@alberthaystowniiijd2821

Ай бұрын

@@steveburton5825 It is known as the "Numberg Defense." Yes, it was argued, and the dog did not hunt.

The court sustained every objection by the prosecution that there is no chance to speak up.

There are many messages going out from this excellent movie. The ethics of military men is the most important. The obeyence is also very important for an army. Anyway, the US Army is the Army of a leading country in this era. We wish to that country, those congressmen, that Army to work for the ethics and the piece of this world. To lead as the good example, preserving world piece. The world needs ethics, let's give this meaning its gravity. May Good bless the leaders and inspire the total example, to be as it has to be, full of light, and less of darkness. For a better world!

Stellar cast