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In June 1907, Corporal Edward Ward, a former railroad signal man assigned to the U.S. Army Signal Corps post on Bedloes island, was told by his commanding officer that he and Private Joseph E. Barrett were

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 The Air Force has evolved from its simple origins as an Army balloon experiment to what it is today. Its first official organization was as

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Rising to 1,400 feet, who recorded the first successful and useful balloon reconnaissance mission for the Army?

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President Lincoln and the War Department provided Thaddeus Lowe $250 for balloon demonstrations, including the transmission of a telegraph message from aloft. In August 1861, a Confederate battery fired upon Lowe and his craft. Lowe and the craft escaped unharmed and went on to demonstrate

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Some historians believe that the use of William Ivy Baldwin's balloon during the Spanish-American war was a determining factor in the victory of this critical battle:

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 In 1896, William Ivy Baldwin and his wife built a 14,000 cubic foot silk balloon which was used during the Spanish-American War at the battle of San Juan Hill. That balloon was named

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To the extent that the military was interested in aviation, it was interested in balloons, but public enthusiasm for all things aeronautical increased after

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Who competed in the first international balloon race from Paris, France, to Flying Dales, England, winning the 1906 Gordon Bennett trophy, and sparking renewed national interest in aeronautics?

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With the army in possession of several balloons, it required trained enlisted men to conduct balloon inflations and repairs. On 2 July 1907, Ward and Barrett left Bedloes island under orders from the War Department to report to

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Who were the first enlisted men assigned to the Signal Corps' small Aeronautical Division which eventually evolved into the U.S. Air Force?