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When the Army's dismal performance with the airmail caused a public outcry last year, the Administration felt constrained to find a scapegoat. It had been the opinion of Major General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, that the Army could fly the mail. Major General Foulois was investigated by a House Military Affairs subcommittee, which indignantly demanded his dismissal...
Secretary Dern's order relieved General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, from command of practically the entire combat air force, restricting his command in future to personnel training and aircraft procurement. Directly in control of the new combat force will be General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Actual command of the GHQ Air Force probably will go to Brigadier General Charles H. Danforth of Langley Field, onetime Assistant Chief of Air Corps, who was expected to be upped in rank to major-general...
Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...
After an emergency meeting in the dead of night, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of Air Corps, and his assistant, Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (in command of the maneuvers) set the armada's schedule back 24 hr. Particularly was this irksome to Secretary Davison. His guest and fellow-observer at the Dayton concentration was his fellow-Yaleman, close friend and sub-cabinet colleague and rival, David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York...
...grey sky, chafed at delay. Finally three planes started off. An hour later two of them were forced back by the weather. The other plane was the only one to get through to Dayton from Boiling Field that day. It was piloted by baldheaded, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois,* 51-year-old Assistant Chief of Air Corps, senior airman in point of service, commander of this year's maneuvers...
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