03208cpcaa2200553 4500 mm 78021188 DLC 20260227111623.0 cr ||||||||||| 781030|||||||||||| eng mm 78021188 DLC DLC dacs DLC R lcmd Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf, 1879-1967. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois papers, 1898-1966 (bulk 1908-1935). 17,850 items. 51 containers plus 1 oversize. 20.4 linear feet. 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. United States. Army Foreign service Philippines. United States. Army History Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916. United States. Army. Air Corps. United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Aeronautics Law and legislation. Aeronautics, Military. Air bases New York (State) Air mail service. Civil defense. Military attachés United States. Spanish-American War, 1898. World War, 1914-1918 Aerial operations, American. Mitchel Field (N.Y.) Philippines History 1898-1946. Philippines History Philippine American War, 1899-1902. Diplomatic and consular service, American Germany. Army officers. itoamc Aviators. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006017 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006017.3 39867 39867