Benjamin Delahauf Foulois papers, 1898-1966 (bulk 1908-1935).

Open to research.

Correspondence, diaries, reports, flight records, personnel records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Foulois's military career and the development of air power in the U.S. military. Documents Foulois's service in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War (1898), in the Philippines during and after the insurrection (1899-1905), in aerial operations during the Mexican Punitive Expedition (1916), and as chief of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service in World War I, military observer and attaché in Berlin, Germany (1920-1924), commanding officer at Mitchel Field, Long Island, N.Y. (1925-1927), and assistant chief and chief of the Army Air Corps (1927-1935). Also documents U.S. Army airmail operations and Foulois's work relating to civil defense. Includes Foulois's logbook for Aeroplane No. 1 and notebooks (1910) kept while he learned to fly and maintain the army's only airplane.

In part, transcripts. [S.l.].

U.S. Army officer and pioneer aviator.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006017

Partial indexes available with the collection.