Legacy
Mitchel Field (Mitchel Air Force Base) on Long Island was named for him in 1918. A bronze memorial plaque with Mitchel's likeness is also affixed between the two stone pylons at the western end of Hamilton Hall, the main college building at Columbia University.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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