williammitchell

This photo was published in the New Britain Herald. July 30, 1923, Page 9 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1923-07-30/ed-... From the caption: "Official Photo, U. S. Army Air Service" "Photo gives splendid indication of the real size of the Barling Bomber, world's largest air plane, soon to take the air at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, O. Note the height of the wheels compared with that of General Mitchell. Left to right: Walter H. Barling, designer of the plane, General William Mitchell, assistant chief, Air Service; Major Martin, Major A. W. Robins, Mr. Carisi. Lieutenant Dichman and Lieutenant Blackburn." The Evening Star. August 19, 1923, Page 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1923-08-19/ed-... has a description of the aircraft. See also www.earlyaviators.com/eschobe5.htm

This took a full day of research, but I have identified each and given them a Wikidata entry, if they lacked one already: Walter Henry Barling (1890-1965) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107577357 General William Mitchell (1879-1936) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863201 Major Harold Smith Martin (1892-1961) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107580274 Major Augustine Warner Robins (1882-1940) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4821225 John Carisi (1884-1960) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107577822 Lieutenant Ernest Wyckham Dichman (1892-1955) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107579240 Lieutenant Thomas Welch Blackburn (1892-1964) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107580412

William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell

The original caption is "WM." (= William), not "W.M."

Different number, but probably same as this one in Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919) 49477. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell beside German plane. Coblenz. Rhenish Prussia, Germany. December 30, 1918. archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n529/mode/2up

Interesting, the officer on the left appears to be wearing spurs. Appears to be a British(?) Unifor, and riding crop or swagger stick in hand.

I like the commons and particularly the pictures that show vintage airplaines! Here we see a man (right) who resembles Sebastian Schweinsteiger - a world class football (not soccer, football, football was invented in England and soccer is the wrong word for it - in England they say "Football" and not soccer!!!) player of FC Bayern München! I wish so much that he scores often enough in the upcoming world championship (football!) so that Germany will be the world football champion.

I enjoy this !!

The person to the left in uniform is Billy Mitchell. See the image at this link--he is on the right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell#mediaviewer/File:Col...