Lewis H. Brereton
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Lewis Hyde Brereton was a military aviation pioneer and lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. A 1911 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he began his military career as a United States Army officer in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps prior to World War I, then spent the remainder of his service as a career aviator.
Lewis Brereton
L-R (in front of wing): Glenn Curtiss, Joseph D. Park, Lewis E. Goodier, Jr., Samuel H. McLeary and Brereton, December 4, 1912.
Curtiss F float plane of the type flown by Brereton in fatal crash of April 8, 1913.
Salmson 2 armed reconnaissance aircraft
Far East Air Force (United States)
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The Far East Air Force (FEAF) was the military aviation organization of the United States Army in the Philippines just prior to and at the beginning of World War II. Formed on 16 November 1941, FEAF was the predecessor of the Fifth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Air Force.
A-27s of the 17th Pursuit Squadron at Nichols Field, November 1941.
Ceremony at Camp Murphy in Rizal marking the induction of the Philippine Army Air Corps into the U.S. Army on 15 August 1941.
Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress
Bombs being loaded into a B-17 of the 19th Bomb Group at Del Monte Field