biography
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Foulois, Benjamin D(elahauf)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1967)
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| biography:
| US soldier and aviator, born in Washington, Connecticut, USA. He left his father's plumbing business to fight in the Spanish war (1898), was commissioned (1901), and transferred to the Signal Corps (1908). He learned to fly two years later and became assistant chief of the American Expeditionary Force's air service in France (1917). As chief of the Army Air Corps (1931–5), he overcame tight budgets and official indifference in order to improve training, equipment, and doctrine. He retired in 1935, the year in which the establishment of General Headquarters Air Force gave the flying service a measure of autonomy. |
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