Billy Mitchell: Renegade Prophet of Air Power

On the morning of December 7, 1941, more than 300 planes, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers in two waves, struck American battleships, cruisers and destroyers clustered around Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and aircraft parked at nearby Hickam Field, killing 2,403 Americans and wounding 1,178 others.

Hours later, Japanese aircraft attac…