• Aviation’s Climb

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When the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917,military aviation consisted of fewer than 1,200 men, some 250 airplanes, and 5 balloons under Signal Corps control to provide observation and courier service for infantry, cavalry, and artillery. By the Armistice the Army had received about 11,000 planes of [...]