The youthfulness of American military air powers-and the efficacy of that correspondence course in flying-can be measured by the fact that Benjamin Foulois is still alive and active, retired as a major general and former Chief of the Army Air Corps.
My own memories do not go back quite so far-I became an air cadet in 1928. But I have seen transformations leading to the present Air Force that almost defy belief.
What General Foulois started in 1910 had grown by 1928 to an organization of some 11,000 men and 1,100 planes, and a budget of about $20,000,000. Since 1928, the Air Force has increased its manpower 75 times, its aircraft 13 times, and its budget nearly a thousandfold!
With this growth in size has come complexity. The first craft I flew, a training plane known as the PT-3, had a stick and throttle…"
A neat little history of the US Air Force
7” x 10”, 5 pages,
About the present day (1965) Air Force; Vietnam, Cold War, SAC etc.
7” x 10”, 52 pages, 50+ photos
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