Word: fechet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President of the National Aeronautic Association is Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The members of the advisory board include Assistant Secretaries for Aeronautics F. Trubee Davison, David S. Ingalls and William P. MacCracken Jr.; and Flying Chiefs Maj.-Gen. J. E. Fechet of the Army, Rear-Adm. W. A. Moffett of the Navy. Other members are Harry F. Guggenheim, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart...
...arrive, and the bombers. There was great fussing and cussing over the delayed arrival of bombs. The warming sun fretted men. It softened the sausage of ice in the river. The ice chittered, crumbled, tumbled down the river, leaving the bombers no work to do. Maj. Gen. James Edmond Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps, detailed three bombers and four observation planes to Fort Lincoln, S. Dak., to wait there for shipments of bombs...
...Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute if necessary...
Approaching St. Johns, N. B., Major General Fechet's pilot, Lieutenant Muir Fairchild, had an attack of appendicitis. A relief pilot, Lieutenant Elwood Auesada, flew up from Boston and the expedition continued...
...General Fechet is to the banner born. The fighting strain (French-Huguenot, not Irish) surges through Fechet blood. His uncle quit the U. S. Army after long service, irked with peace, and went to Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...