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LOUIS FANCHER OVER THERE / IN THE AIR SERVICE. Circa 1918.
40x30 inches. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
Condition B+: restored losses, replaced paper and repaired tears in margins; creases in image; vertical and horizontal folds.
A mechanic is waving a plane into the sky against a background of a hangar filled with more planes. The roots of America's present day Air Force extend back to August 1, 1907, when the U. S. Army Signal Corps established a small aeronautical division. When World War I began, in 1914, the extent of the American Air Force was "12 officers, 54 enlisted men and six aircraft" (http://www.af.mil/history/overview.shtml). On May 24, 1918, President Wilson removed responsibility for American military aviation from the Signal Corps and placed it within two agencies under the supervision of the U.S. Army: the Bureau of Aircraft Production and the Division of Military Aeronautics. These two branches were officially recognized as the U.S. Army Air Service. When America declared war against Germany, a beleaguered France made the following outrageous request of their new Ally: "4500 airplanes--personnel and materiel included -- to be sent to the French Front during the campaign of 1918. The total number of pilots... 5,000 and 50,000 mechanics" (Rawls p. 171). On July 21 the U.S. Congress voted to allocate 640 million dollars towards aviation and the massive production program began. Rawls p. 175.
Condition B+: restored losses, replaced paper and repaired tears in margins; creases in image; vertical and horizontal folds.
A mechanic is waving a plane into the sky against a background of a hangar filled with more planes. The roots of America's present day Air Force extend back to August 1, 1907, when the U. S. Army Signal Corps established a small aeronautical division. When World War I began, in 1914, the extent of the American Air Force was "12 officers, 54 enlisted men and six aircraft" (http://www.af.mil/history/overview.shtml). On May 24, 1918, President Wilson removed responsibility for American military aviation from the Signal Corps and placed it within two agencies under the supervision of the U.S. Army: the Bureau of Aircraft Production and the Division of Military Aeronautics. These two branches were officially recognized as the U.S. Army Air Service. When America declared war against Germany, a beleaguered France made the following outrageous request of their new Ally: "4500 airplanes--personnel and materiel included -- to be sent to the French Front during the campaign of 1918. The total number of pilots... 5,000 and 50,000 mechanics" (Rawls p. 171). On July 21 the U.S. Congress voted to allocate 640 million dollars towards aviation and the massive production program began. Rawls p. 175.
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