United States Army Air Service - Notable Members of The Air Service

Notable Members of The Air Service

  • Henry H. Arnold, aviation pioneer; Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Forces
  • Hobey Baker, star athlete at Princeton University
  • Hiram Bingham III, United States Senator from Connecticut
  • Clayton Bissell, World War I ace, commander of Tenth Air Force during World War II
  • Erwin R. Bleckley, artillery officer and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Raynal Bolling, general counsel for US Steel; first high-ranking casualty of World War I
  • Leighton Brewer, Free verse poet and Boston University professor
  • Arthur Raymond Brooks, World War I ace
  • Dick Calkins, comic strip artist
  • Douglas Campbell, first American ace
  • Clarence Chamberlain, aviation pioneer
  • Merian C. Cooper, adventurer and Hollywood film producer
  • Stephen W. Cunningham, UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member
  • Jimmy Doolittle, daredevil pilot, aeronautical engineer, World War II general
  • Ira Eaker, commander of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II
  • Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, aviation pioneer
  • Harold Ernest Goettler, Medal of Honor recipient
  • Edgar Gorrell, Air Service historian and president of Stutz Motor Company
  • Dick Grace, Hollywood stunt flyer
  • James Norman Hall, writer, co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Charles W. "Chic" Harley, All-American college football player
  • Arthur Harvey, oil pioneer, author
  • Howard Hawks, film director
  • Field Kindley, World War I ace
  • Fiorello LaGuardia, U.S. Representative and Mayor of New York
  • Reed G. Landis, ace while flying with Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and early airline executive
  • Frederick Libby, first U.S. born ace, while flying with the RFC
  • Charles Lindbergh, aviation pioneer; first trans-Atlantic solo pilot
  • Raoul Lufbery, member of Lafayette Escadrille and air tactics pioneer
  • Frank Luke, ace and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Norman Z. McLeod, Hollywood director
  • Thomas DeWitt Milling, aviation pioneer and first certified U.S. military pilot
  • John Purroy Mitchel, mayor of New York City and advocate of universal military training
  • Billy Mitchell, airpower visionary
  • Odas Moon, pioneer in aerial refueling and bombing doctrine
  • Charles Nordhoff, co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Clyde Pangborn, aviation pioneer, first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean
  • LeRoy Prinz - Hollywood choreographer
  • Eddie Rickenbacker, highest ranking U.S. ace of World War I and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Monk Saunders, author and screenwriter
  • Carl Andrew Spaatz, first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
  • Elliott White Springs, ace with RFC and USAS, post-war pulp fiction writer
  • Stephen W. Thompson, first U. S. military aerial victor
  • George Augustus Vaughn, Jr., World War I Ace
  • Alfred V. Verville, aircraft designer
  • William Wellman, Hollywood film director
  • Charles A. Willoughby, World War II general in the United States Army
  • John Gilbert Winant, educator, governor of New Hampshire, and ambassador to Britain

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