The United States Army air arm, April 1861 to April 1917

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Balloons and airships in the United States Army, 1861-1913

Early American planes and their inventors

The Signal Corp's early air installations and first military aviator rating

College Park and other air schools, 1912-1913

Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego, 1913 to July 1914

Aviation legislation, and the Aviation Section through 1914

Aviation in 1915 and 1916

The Aviation Section in 1916

The 1st Squadron with Pershing's Punitive Expedition, 1916

Army flying training schools, the National Guard, and the Air Reserve

The Aviation Section to 6 April 1917

Appendix 1, Office Memorandum No.6 (Establishing Aeronautical Division of the Signal Corps)

Appendix 2, Requirements for Spherical Balloon Pilot, FAI

Appendix 3, Brief of General Specificaton #483 for Army Airship

Appendix 4, Requirements for Dirigible Balloon Pilot, FAI

Appendix 5, Wright Brothers' correspondence

Appendix 6, Brief of Specification #486 of Heavier-than-Air Flying Machine

Appendix 7, Requirements for Aviation Pilot, FAI

Appendix 8, Requirements for Military Aviator Rating, 1912, Signal Corps

Appendix 9, Requirements for Expert Aviator, Aero Club of America, 1913

Appendix 10, Twenty-four original miliitary aviators

Appendix 11, Requirements for military aviator rating, 1914

Appendix 12, Army and Signal Corps aviation fatalities, 17 Sep 1908-6 April 1917

Appendix 13, Creation of Aviation Section, Signal Corps, 63d Congress, 2d Session

Appendix 14, Army Officers and Enlisted Pilots, U.S. Reserve and U.S. National Guard Aviators, chronologically arranged to 1917

Appendix 15, Soldier pilots, Regular Army, up to outbreak of World War I

Appendix 16, Enlisted men rated aviation mechanicians under the Act of 18 July 1914, to the outbreak of World War I

Appendix 17, Allocations and appropriations for Aeronautics, U.S. Army, to 6 April 1917

Appendix 18, Unauthenticated list of students and instructors undergoing training at Mineola, February 1917

Bibliographical note