Randolph Field [Cover]
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Randolph Field [Cover]Description
Cachet designed by Texas artist Gladys Adler, commemorating the twentieth anniversary at Randolph Air Force Base, the "West Point of the Air". Postmarked on May 19, 1938 at Randolph Field, Texas.Context
On May 20, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order transferring aviation from the Signal Corps to two agencies under the Secretary of War: the Bureau of Aircraft Production, headed by Mr. John D. Ryan, and the Division of Military Aeronautics, directed by Maj. Gen. William L. Kenly. On May 24 the War Department officially recognized these two Army agencies as comprising the Air Service of the US Army.Category
Texas Folk Art: One-Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Tradition