Detachment Ninth Observation Group Air Corps, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont : instructions for using code letters, 1927.

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Detachment Ninth Observation Group Air Corps, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont : instructions for using code letters, 1927.

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This document consists of two pages of instruction generated from Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, on November 14, 1927, by Lieutenant Colonel B. D. Foulois, an U.S. Army Air Corps Officer. They give instructions to the citizens of Fairfax, Vermont, for ground-to-airplane message codes to indicate needed emergency supplies and for interpretations of airplane response signals. They were issued following the flood of November 3 and 4, 1927, by the command of General Preston Brown who had organized the first relief flights to Vermont, and who had arrived in Burlington by air from Boston on November 6, 1927.

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Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf, 1879-1967

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Benjamin "Benny" Delahauf Foulois (December 9, 1879 – April 25, 1967) was a United States Army general who learned to fly the first military planes purchased from the Wright Brothers. He became the first military aviator as an airship pilot, and achieved numerous other military aviation "firsts". He led strategic development of the Air Force in the United States. Foulois was born in Washington, Connecticut to a Franco-American pipe-fitter and a Boston-born nurse. At age 18, he used his older...