Two institutional consequences provide competing measures of Mitchell's legacy. Distrust reduced Army-Navy cooperation until leaders such as Ernest King, George Marshall, and William Leahy invested years in rebuilding it. The Army Air Corps also became preoccupied with using large bombers and level bombing against ships, a method that proved ineffective against maneuvering naval targets. The closing question asks which consequence mattered more.
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Mitchell's legacy: distrust or level-bombing doctrine?
The closing asks whether Project B's greater harm was poisoned Army-Navy cooperation or an Army Air Corps fixation on level-bombing attacks against moving ships.