Bradley, Eric

Eric T. Bradley was a United States (U.S.) military officer who had a career in both military and civilian aviation. During WWI he enlisted in the Royal Engineers and saw action in France. He then trained in England to be a pilot and was sent to the Aegean to become a squadron commander. When the U.S. entered the war he was transferred to the Air Section of the United States Signal Corps. During WWII he worked for the British Purchasing Commission and later the War Production Board. Then he was sent on a special mission to work with air technical teams to find and analyze captured enemy equipment and research new weaponry. He saw action in Italy, France and Germany. After the war, he was assigned as Chief of Aircraft for the Far East where he helped liquidate U.S. Air Force surplus and then remained in the Far East to pursue various civil projects. He then went to Europe to assist the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to build air strengths. Bradley continued in private industry working in the area of the inertia guidance principle for aerospace equipment.