- Children with Stoddard: Elizabeth, Harriet, John. Children with Trumbull: Lucy, William Jr.
- Biography in: "National Cyclopædia of American Biography". Vol. XXVI, pp. 21-22. New York: James T. White & Company, 1937.
- Biography in: "Contemporary Authors". Vol. 213, pp. 282-284. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Vol. 15, pp. 637-638. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Biography in: "Dictionary of American Biography". Supplement 2, pp. 460-462. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.
- Some sources state that in 1946, ten years after his death, Mitchell was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, meaning the US military's highest award for valor. In fact, he was awarded a Congressional gold medal "in recognition of his outstanding pioneer service and foresight in the field of American military aviation." (60 Stat. 1319) The medal was presented to his son, William Jr. The confusion stems from the first line of the act of Congress that authorizes the medal, which reads; "AN ACT / Authorizing the President of the United States to award posthumously in the name of Congress a Medal of Honor to William Mitchell".
- Although Mitchell arranged three separate live demonstrations in which his air wings successfully attacked and sank several battleships, both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy buried or downplayed the reports. One of the chief instigators of this coverup was the General of the Army John J. Pershing.
- Mitchell wrote a 324-page report -- published in 1925 -- that predicted future war with Japan, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- In 2007, the Air Force first awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal, which is based on the insignia painted on Billy Mitchell's own aircraft during World War I.
- Henry H. Arnold ('Hap') told reporters shortly after Mitchell's death, "People would often say Billy Mitchell was years ahead of his time but many would forget how it was also true.".
- In 1999, General Mitchell's portrait was put on an US airmail postage stamp.
- The U.S. Air Force Pipes and Drums, which existed as a free-standing unit within the U.S. Air Force Band between 1960 and 1970, wore the Mitchell family tartan, in honor of Billy Mitchell.
- General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is named after him, as is the much smaller Billy Mitchell airstrip in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- In 1955, the Air Force Association passed a resolution calling for the voiding of Mitchell's court-martial. His son petitioned in 1957 to have the court-martial verdict set aside, which the Air Force denied while expressing regret about the circumstances under which Mitchell's military career ended.
- In the 1943 classic World War II movie A Guy Named Joe (1943) the unnamed "General" who gives the deceased pilot his "new assignment" strongly resembles General Mitchell.
- The B-25 bomber which Jimmy Doolittle piloted to bomb Japan in 1942 was nicknamed "The Mitchell". The B-25 "Mitchell" is the only American military aircraft type that has been named after a specific person.
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