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In 1934, all United States commercial air mail carrying contracts were cancelled due to controversy over how the contracts had been awarded. The United States Army Air Corps was charged with carrying air mail service, beginning 19 February 1934. Due in part to extremely bad weather, inadequate preparation of the mail pilots, and the ...
The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a 1934 congressional investigation into the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and the subsequent disastrous use of the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) to fly the mail after the contracts were revoked.
A US Army Air Corps Curtiss O-39 Falcon, 32-219, assigned to the air mail service crashes in bad weather near Fremont, Ohio, with pilot Lt. Norman R. Burnett suffering a fractured leg upon descending by parachute. A news report states that "One ankle was broken and he suffered exposure to the bitter cold for five hours while dragging himself to ...
June 12 – In the United States, the Air Mail Act of 1934 closely regulates the contracting of air mail services and prohibits aircraft manufacturers from owning airlines. [ 21 ] June 23 – The U.S. Army takes delivery of its first six Link Trainers , giving birth to the flight simulator industry.
Events from the year 1934 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government ... U.S. Army general (d. 2012) August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, basketball player, coach, ...
This timeline of United States military operations, ... 1915–1934: Haiti: From July 28, 1915, to August 15, 1934, United States occupation of Haiti. U.S. forces ...
General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB (/ ˈ ʃ w ɔːr t s k ɒ f / SHWORTS-kof; 22 August 1934 – 27 December 2012) was a United States Army general.While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq.
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. ... [n 8] Between 1927 and 1934, ...