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    Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (December 9, 1879 – April 25, 1967) was a United States Army general who learned to fly the first military planes purchased...
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    candidates to fly the dirigible: Lahm, Selfridge, and 1st Lt. Benjamin Foulois, Infantry. Foulois was trained as the first dirigible pilot and prepared to...
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    first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland. From 1971 to 1978, she...
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    Expeditionary Forces' Chief of the Air Service, Brigadier General Benjamin Foulois, on 6 May 1918, requiring the creation of distinct, readily identifiable...
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    led by a mayor and town council. Morningside Elementary School and Benjamin Foulois Junior High School/Elementary/Creative and Performing Arts Academy...
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    discord with Foulois. Pershing restated the responsibilities of the Air Service AEF with G.O. No. 81, May 29, 1918, in which he replaced Foulois as Chief...
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    called Foulois and Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur to the White House, asking them to fly only in completely safe conditions. Foulois replied...
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    the College Park Airport, Frank P. Lahm, Frederick E. Humphreys, and Benjamin Foulois.: 330–341  On May 25, 1910, back at Huffman Prairie, Orville piloted...
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    served at the fort, including Arthur MacArthur Jr., Leonard Wood, Benjamin Foulois, Frederick Funston, and John J. Pershing.: 30, 32, 38, 57  Maj. Gen...
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    July 1908; his training partners were Lieutenants Frank P. Lahm and Benjamin Foulois. The dirigible was scheduled to fly from Fort Omaha, Nebraska, to exhibitions...
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    ISBN 0-7607-3432-1. Foulois, Benjamin D. Glines, Carroll V. (1968). From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Major General Benjamin D. Foulois. New...
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    Lieutenants Frank Lahm, Michael "CC" Finney, Thomas Selfridge and Benjamin Foulois were taught to fly the craft. After Second Lieutenant John G Winter...
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    the Army airship program, and Chief of the Air Corps Major General Benjamin Foulois, who himself had been a pilot of the SC-1, was recommending the program...
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    as executive officer in October 1934. His investigations included Benjamin Foulois and the Army Air Force and accusations of bribery against Alexander...
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  • (1980) Henry Ford (1984) Joseph Jacob Foss (1984) Steve Fossett (2007) Benjamin Foulois (1963) Betty Skelton Frankman (2005) William John Frye (1992) Fitzhugh...
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    it a semi-autonomous "Air Corps." Arnold, like fellow flyer Captain Benjamin Foulois, argued that the action was premature, and like his Signal Corps boss...
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    operational decisions. Kenly was replaced a short time later by Brig. Gen. Benjamin Foulois. Kenly then returned to the United States to become Director of Military...
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    The First Army Air Service was activated 26 August 1918, with Col. Benjamin Foulois named chief over Col. Billy Mitchell. The Second Army Air Service was...
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    Department into placing the attack group in Montgomery. In May 1928 General Benjamin Foulois, General Fechet's assistant, during an inspection visit with Third...
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    William L. Kenly August 26, 1917 - November 27, 1917 Brigadier General Benjamin Foulois November 27, 1917 - May 29, 1918 Major General Mason Patrick May 29...
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    fatality. The pilots of the squadron met with its commander, Capt. Benjamin Foulois, to advise that the JN-2 was unsafe because of low power, shoddy construction...
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    operations, especially with newer and more powerful aircraft. Major Benjamin Foulois, with the support of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, selected...
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    1922 until final closure of the camp in 1927.: 116  On 3 March 1911, Benjamin Foulois and Philip Orin Parmelee flew the US military's first cross country...
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    Division of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, Major General Benjamin Foulois. He performed various duties, including translating an article by the...
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    years old." Staff. "Foulois to Seek Congress Seat", The New York Times, August 5, 1942. Accessed September 9, 2012. "Benjamin D. Foulois of Ventnor, retired...
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    names of the field's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Foulois, and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his...
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    endpoints. A simple strap was first used March 12, 1910, by pilot Benjamin Foulois, a pioneering aviator with the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps...
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    machines for Japanese use. Orville Wright flies with passenger Lt. Benjamin Foulois at an average 42.58 miles per hour (68.53 km/h) mph over a measured...
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    there for a stint as an instructor. On December 22, 1935, he succeeded Benjamin Foulois as Chief of the Air Corps with the accompanying promotion to major...
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    in June. Patrick replaced general Benjamin Foulois as commander, as Pershing had felt staff planning under Foulois had been inefficient, with considerable...
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