Show HBO AIR SERVICE CAUSES letter le IS PLACED BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE FOR investigation mitchell Mt tell tells secretary week weeks pre tnt sent war department air craft administration detrimental washington brigadier general mitchell assistant stant chief of the array amy air service informed secretary week that h ho believed the present war department organization and nl it its administration ministration quite incapable of cresting creating handling or administering air power in an efficient manner in the letter replying to a request from the war secretary for ell all facts upon which the assistant anny simy chief based recent statements sate ments seriously reflecting on the armye air arm general mitchell eaid said he was convinced the system of aircraft management in operation oper atlon in the united I 1 5 tates la is detrimental to he the country good and will beriou serl outly ay coir promise e our national defense should an emergency arite arise the generals letter waa was placed be fore the house ain raft committee co which had met to hear bear be both th gene general genei I buchell liell and ana brigadier general drum df f the anny gereral staff ale beneral general B view of the warde war de part nent general Sll alisch ell wrote la is to limit the ability of aviation in a military way ltd in n pite spite of the finding findings of the joint army and navy board in spite of the moat most sive evidence evid enco of every in th tho world the navy department still appears before bafo congress qs and still flea fles incorrectly and give gives the imbres ion slon that the aircraft ore are of limited power against battleships tha rhe resistance ree latance of the war department to the creati creation or jf of an independent aeronautical personnel perso miel is insistent and coa contant tant 1 I have fully critie fEed the system now in n operation which I 1 am convinced Is I 1 detrimental to the counton coun trye good and which will seriously corn com promise mr national defense should an emergency arise general mitchell said since the wai has been put into aviation but that lie did not believe the appropriations are economic aUy administered on account at of the duplication li of land babes between th the army and navy he lie declared thai that major hajor general patrick chief of the any m y air service had like himself in d based ased a united air force although suh a move mone is opposed by secretary week weeks as well as secretary wilb wllbur wilbur b ur general mitchell took up in detail those statements of tin ins conj ai 1 I testimony objected to by be bc bere re tary weeks explaining his assertion that all the organization we have in this country realty really now is for the protection of vested interests against aviation he declared tun war navy postoffice post office tice ani and other de do ments concerned with aviation resist uny kiy change which in any way curtail curtal or modify their authority either over aviation its development to a position of equality with these department departments or I 1 its ts extension or de beyond its b oong a e ti auxiliary to their discussing Discua sing the combing joni bing tests off the virginia capes in 1921 the general said tb th shiu wh Iu performance in the minds of the air of fiers participating part icil appeared to be a deliberate at to handicap us in the accod li of our 11 in tho the test be her said the army amy 1 were ere ordered to bomb from an excessive altitude |