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Cap'n Lewis is right: Mitchell died in 1936 (I was thinking 39-40). Don't know about his last words but should find out, as his wife was a distant relative of my father's.
MacArthur was the army's youngest two-star in 1925 and presided over Mitchell's courtmartial. He became chief of staff 5-6 years later which may be one reason he escaped the ax for the Philippines debacle in 41-42, contrary to Kimmel & Short in Hawaii. IMO Mac didn't do anything exceptional in WW II but he was the only one willing to defy conventional wisdom ref. Inchon. In fact, the only reason Bradley got a 5th star in 1950 was so that he could talk to MacArthur! (Brad had already declared 'phib ops "impossible" in the nuke age.)
the gov't. offered Mitchell a posthumous olive branch in naming the B-25 for him. Am hard pressed to think of another US airplane bearing the official name of an individual though apparently the Brits liked Americans well enough to name the Avro Lincoln <g>!
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