They Serve Here: Thirty-Three Maxwell Men
Abstract
The 30 essays that follow first appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser during September 1997, They contributed to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United States Air Force. Montgomery, Alabama, has been associated with the airplane almost since its conception, For two months in the spring of 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright operated the world's first civilian flying school on the Kohn cotton plantation, the site that is today's Maxwell Air Force Base, Military aviation began in 1917 with the establishment of primary flying training at Taylor Field in the Pike Road community just east of Montgomery, Early the next year, the An%y reopened the old "Wn'ght Field" as an aircraft engine and repair depot, In 1929, because of the efforts of Mayor William Gunter, Montgomery was one of the first cities in the country to have a planned municipal ah'port-commercial passenger service began three years later, Today the site of the old municipal aii'port is Maxwell's Gunter Annex, During the late 1920s and 1930s, Maxwell Field became a pefl%anent facility with major construction of military facilities and housing units, From 1931 when it relocated from Langley Field, Virginia, until it was closed in 1942, the Air Coi'ps Tactical School (ACTS) developed ail'power doctrine and educated many, if not most of the ain%en who lead the An%y Air Forces during World War II, Air University was established in 1946, fulfilling the vision of its first commandant, Gen Muir S, Fairchild, Air University has become the heart and the mind of the Air Force Thousands have served at Maxwell since World War I-men and women, service members and civilians, Americans and foreigners, aviation cadets and flying instructors, students and faculty, and support personnel and flyers, The 33 ain%en featured here are not representative of all who have served at Maxwell, Rather, they are a few of those who have achieved a place in aviation or military history, In her wisdom, Maya Lin, the des
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA421981
Entities
People
- Jeffrey C. Benton
Organizations
- Air University Press