NOTE: For authors or titles not given in full, please search in the list of further reading following these notes.
1. “World Race Rules Submitted,” Aero and Hydro, 7 February 1914, 237.
2. Letter to the Editor, Aero and Hydro, 21 February 1914, 267.
3. Untitled editorial, by E. Percy Noel, Aero and Hydro, 21 February 1914, 266.
4. “First Aerial Derby Around the World,” Flying, May 1920, 261.
1. Aircraft Year Book 1923 (New York: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce), 6.
2. Aircraft Year Book 1924 (New York: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce), 1.
3. Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pierce, 1943), 301.
4. Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949), 80.
5. Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power, 192.
6. Memorandum from H. A. Dargue, Chief, War Plans Section, Office of Chief of Air Service, for Lt. Robert J. Brown Jr., 13 April 1922. U.S. National Archives, File Entry No. E.140, RWF File, Box 5 (hereinafter referred to as National Archives, RWF File).
7. Associated Press, “Army Getting Data for World Flight,” 23 October 1922.
8. Memorandum for Chief of Air Service from Major General J. G. Harbord, Deputy Chief of Staff, 24 October 1922. National Archives, RWF File, Box 5.
9. First indorsement by Major General Mason M. Patrick to Memorandum from Deputy Chief of Staff, 27 October 1922. National Archives, RWF File, Box 5.
10. “U.S. Not Planning Round-the-World Flight,” by Myron H. Best, New York Times, 9 January 1923.
11. Letter, subject: “Airplanes for Round-the-World Flight” from Major W. H. Frank to Chief, Engineering Division, McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, 7 November 1922. National Archives, RWF File, Box 5.
12. First indorsement by H. A. Mobrey, Assistant Chief, Engineering Division, to letter from Major W. H. Frank, 22 November 1922. National Archives, RWF File, Box 5.
13. Memorandum from C. E. Crumrine, Subject: Round-the-World Flight for Major H. A. Dargue, 10 January 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 6.
14. Report, Lt. Clarence E. Crumrine to Chief of Air Service, 28 March 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 6.
15. Document U-672-A.S. “The Round-the-World Flight,” undated, unsigned, 1. Series Eleven, Leigh Wade/Cole Morrow Collection, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (hereinafter referred to as Wade/Morrow Collection).
16. Memorandum from Lt. Col. J. E. Fechet, Chief, Training and War Plans Division, for Chief of Air Service, Subject: “Airplane Flight Around the World,” 26 May 1923, 4. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
17. “Airplane Flight Around the World,” Folder 8.
18. “Airplane Flight Around the World.”
19. Letter, Lt. James H. Doolittle to Chief of Air Service, Subject: “Cross Country Flight,”
4 June 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
20. After the World Flight, the Air Service ordered five near-duplicates under the initial designation of DOS for Douglas Observation Seaplane. This title was changed to O-5 when a new designation system was adopted in May 1924. The five O-5s were delivered as twin-float seaplanes. The Army Air Service (later the Army Air Corps) began ordering O-2 observation aircraft, descendants of the Cloudster, in 1924. During the next twelve years, Douglas manufactured nearly 900 of this type in more than fifty versions for United States and foreign air forces.
21. Letter, Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, to Adjutant General of the Army, Subject: “Airplane Flight Around-the-World,” 1 June 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
22. First indorsement to letter from Chief of Air Service to Commanding Officer, McCook Field, 4 June 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
23. General Specifications, Type D-WC, Douglas Company, 5 July 1923. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 7.
24. Letter, Douglas Aircraft Company to Engineering Division, McCook Field, 10 August 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
25. Letter, S. Whipple, Adjutant General, War Department, Subject: “Airplane Flight Around the World” to Chief of Air Service, 23 June 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
26. Duplicate letters from General Patrick to Lts. Clarence E. Crumrine and Clifford C. Nutt, 15 August 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
27. Duplicate letters, Box 7.
28. Telegram, Acting Secretary of State to Chargé in Japan, 30 August 1923. (All references to communications concerning the World Flight between the U.S. State Department and foreign governments are found in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States—1924, vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1939.)
29. Telegram, Secretary of State to Chargé in Japan, 27 November 1923.
30. Telegram, American Ambassador in Japan to Secretary of State, 22 September 1923.
31. Telegram, American Chargé in Japan to Secretary of State, 30 November 1923.
32. Letter, American Chargé in Japan to Secretary of State, 14 December 1923.
33. Telegram, Secretary of State to Chargé in Japan (Caffrey), 10 January 1924.
34. Telegram, American Minister to China (Schurman) to Secretary of State, 26 January 1924.
35. Telegram, Secretary of State to Minister in China (Schurman), 28 January 1924.
36. Telegram, Ambassador to Germany (Houghton) to Secretary of State, 28 January 1924.
37. Telegram, High Commissioner in Turkey (Bristol) to Secretary of State, 30 January 1924.
38. Memorandum from Lieutenant C. E. Crumrine for Lieutenant R. J. Brown, 25 February 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
39. Telegram, Ambassador to Japan (Woods) to Secretary of State, 6 March 1924.
40. Confidential message from CINC Asiatic to OPNAV, 2 April 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
41. Letter, Japanese Ambassador Hanihara Masanao to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, 10 April 1924. Also, Yugi Ichioka, The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885—1924 (New York: Free Press, 1988), 245.
42. Aviation, 18 August 1924, 889.
43. Hiroyuki Agawa, The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy (Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1979), 31–32.
1. Letter, Subject: “Airplane Flight Around the World” from Chief of Air Service to Adjutant General, War Department, 6 November 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
2. Document U-672-A.S., undated, unsigned, Wade/Morrow Collection, Series Eleven.
3. Letter, Chief, Engineering Division, McCook Field to Chief of Air Service, 26 October 1923. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
4. Letter, Edwin Denby to John W. Weeks, 14 January 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
5. Letter, Secretary of the Army to Secretary of the Navy, 25 January 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
6. Ogden was notified he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 5 June 1924 when the flight reached China. He was sworn in at the Astor Hotel in Shanghai.
7. “Report of Round the World Flight by Airplane While Under the Command of Major F. L. Martin, A.S. 1924,” Confidential … Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 8, 5.
8. Letter, O. Westover, Commander, Langley Field, to Chief of Air Service, 8 February 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
9. “Report of Round the World Flight,” p. 7.
1. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet, Chief, Training and War Plans Division to Clayton L. Bissell, Subject: “Instructions for Duty as Advance Officer, Round-the-World Flight,” 14 January 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
2. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet, etc., Box 7.
3. Letter, W. E. Gillmore, Air Officer to C. L. Bissell, 22 January 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
4. Letter, W. E. Gillmore, etc. Box 7.
5. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet to Lt. C. C. Nutt, 19 January 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
6. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet, etc., Box 7.
7. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet, etc., Box 7.
8. Letter, Mejor J. E. Fechet, etc., Box 7.
9. Letter, Major J. E. Fechet, etc., Box 7.
10. Letter, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to Secretary of War John W. Weeks, 22 March 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
11. Letter, Lieutenant R. J. Brown to Lt. Clifford C. Nutt, c/o Military Attaché, Tokyo, Japan, 12 February 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
12. Letter, Lieutenant R. J. Brown, etc., Box 7.
13. New York Times, 7 March 1923.
14. Memorandum, R. J. Brown Jr. to C. L. Bissell at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 20 February 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
15. Letter, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick to Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 25 March 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
16. Confidential message, CINC Asiatic to OPNAV, 2 April 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
17. Letter, F. L. Martin, Subject: “Progress Report to Chief of Air Service,” 14 March 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
18. “American World Flight,” Aviation, 11 April 1924, 362.
19. F. L. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” undated, 13. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
20. Letter, F. L. Martin to Chief of Air Service, 31 March 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
21. Lowell Thomas, The First World Flight (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 19.
22. Marty Martinez, “Magellans of the Air.” Air Line Pilot, April 1974, 20.
23. Arnold diary, 6 April 1924. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 2.
24. Letter, L. D. Schulze, Subject: “World Flight Equipment” to Chief of Air Service, 12 April 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
25. San Diego Union, 8 April 1924.
1. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 19.
2. Martin, “Report,” 20.
3. Arnold diary, 6 April 1924. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 2, Folder 1.
4. Harding diary, 6 April 1924. Air Force Museum Archives, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
5. Alaska was purchased from the Russians in 1867 for $7.2 million. Sitka was its capital until 1900.
6. Harding diary, 10 April 1924.
7. Marty Martinez, “Magellans of the Air.” Air Line Pilot, April 1974, 21.
8. Martinez, “Magellans of the Air,” 21.
9. Harding diary, 10 April 1924.
10. Arnold diary, 11 April 1924.
11. Arnold diary.
12. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 23.
13. Thomas, The First World Flight, 62.
14. Thomas, The First World Flight, 64.
15. Arnold diary, 13 April 1924.
16. Arnold diary, 14 April 1924.
17. Harding diary, 15 April 1924.
18. Letter, F. L. Martin at Kanatak to General Patrick, 22 April 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
19. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 28.
20. Martin, “Report,” 30.
21. Harding diary, 15 April 1924.
22. Thomas, The First World Flight, 78.
23. Thomas, The First World Flight, 78.
24. Harding diary, 19 April 1924.
25. Thomas, The First World Flight, 82.
26. Thomas, The First World Flight, 82–83.
27. Wireless message from Unimak Island to Associated Press, Bremerton, Washington, 30 April 1924. The local residents believed the fliers should have landed at False Pass. National Archives, RWF File, Box 8.
28. Telegram, Loring Pickering, General Manager, North American Newspaper Alliance to Chief of Air Service, 7 May 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 8.
29. Telegram, Loring Pickering to Signal Corps, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., 7 May 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 8.
30. Letter, Mason M. Patrick to Loring Pickering, 9 May 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 8.
1. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 32.
2. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 32.
3. Martin, 33.
4. Alva L. Harvey, Memoirs of an Around-the-World Mechanic (1924) and Pilot (1941), Manhattan, Kansas: Air Force Historical Foundation, 1978, 12.
5. Martin, “Report of Round the World Flight,” 34.
6. Martin, “Report,” 35–36.
7. Martin, “Report,” 38.
8. Radio message from Martin, Port Moller, Alaska, to Chief of Air Service, 10 May 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
9. Martin, Report of Round the World Flight, 39.
10. Harvey memoirs, 14–15.
11. Radio message, Chief of Air Service to Major Martin, 14 May 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
12. Memorandum, J. E. Fechet for Chief of Air Service, Subject: “Shipment of Additional Plane for World Flight,” 13 May 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 7.
13. Letter, Major Martin to General Patrick, 3 June 1924, as quoted in New York Times, 4 June 1924.
14. Memorandum, J. E. Fechet for Chief of Air Service, 26 April 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7. General Patrick did not send this message.
15. Memorandum, J. E. Fechet for Executive, Army Chief of Staff, 30 April 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
16. Archibald D. Turnbull and Clifford L. Lord, History of United States Naval Aviation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940), 222–23.
17. Harding diary, 2 May 1924.
18. Arnold diary, 5 May 1924.
19. Arnold diary, 5 May 1924.
20. Unpublished, undated manuscript by Leigh Wade, Wade/Morrow Collection, Series Two, Folder 8.
21. James C. Winchester, “First Round-the-World Flight.” Air Facts, 38:8, 1975.
22. Harding diary, 11 May 1924.
23. Radio message, Commander Bering Sea Patrol to Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 19 April 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
24. Radio message, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard to Commander Bering Sea Patrol, 20 April 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
25. Thomas, The First World Flight, 115.
26. Arnold diary, 13 May 1924.
27. Arnold diary, 13 May 1924.
28. Thomas, The First World Flight, 107.
29. Letter, Major R. S. Bratton, Subject: “Report on Airplane Base at Hitokapu Wan” to Military Attaché, American Embassy, undated. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
30. Linton Wells, Blood on the Moon, 194–95.
31. As quoted in anonymous report from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haida, 17 May 1924, 26. Furnished by History Office, U.S. Coast Guard.
32. Anonymous report, 27.
1. Arnold diary, 15–16 May 1924.
2. Thomas, The First World Flight, 108–9.
3. Radio message, Bering Sea Patrol at Dutch Harbor to Haida, 14 May 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
4. Letter, General Patrick, Chief of Air Service, to Rear Admiral Fredrick C. Billard, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard, Treasury Department, 28 May 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
5. Letter from General Patrick, Box 7.
6. Letter from General Patrick, Box 7.
7. Radio message, Secretary of War to World Flight, 18 May 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
8. Arnold diary, 17 May 1924.
9. Arnold diary, 17 May 1924.
10. Thomas, The First World Flight, 119.
11. Thomas, 124.
12. Thomas, 129.
13. Thomas, 131.
14. Welcoming speech by Dr. Yoshinao Kozai, president, Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo, 25 May 1924. As quoted in Thomas, The First World Flight, 135–36.
15. James C. Winchester, “First Round-the-World Flight.
16. Thomas, The First World Flight, 139.
17. Wells, Blood on the Moon, 210.
18. Harding diary, 30 May 1924.
19. Thomas, The First World Flight, 143.
20. Thomas, 146.
21. Thomas, 148.
1. Apparently Nelson did not know what Smith observed and would state later in his confidential postflight report.
2. Thomas, The First World Flight, 157–58.
3. Thomas, 160.
4. Leigh Wade, “Aerial Globe Trotting,” unpublished manuscript, Wade/Morrow Collection, Series Eight, Box 39, Folder 4.
5. Thomas, The First World Flight, 161.
6. Thomas, The First World Flight.
7. Thomas, 168.
8. Thomas, 169.
9. Thomas, 171.
10. Thomas, 172–73.
1. Thomas, The First World Flight, 176–77.
2. Thomas, 177.
3. Mitchell made a trip to the Pacific between December 1923 and July 1924. The War Department had ordered him not to visit Japan in an official status, believing that such a visit would strain relations between that country and the United States. He did visit Japan as a tourist in June 1924. Upon his return to Washington the following the month, he prepared a 325-page report in which he stated that a war with Japan was inevitable.
4. Thomas, The First World Flight, 179.
5. Thomas, The First World Flight.
6. Thomas, 184.
7. Thomas, 187.
8. Thomas, 188.
9. Letter from H. A. Halverson, Constantinople, to Chief of Air Service, 9 July 1924. National Archives RWF file, Box 8.
10. Letter from Halverson.
11. Thomas, The First World Flight, 194.
12. Marty Martinez, “Magellans of the Air.” Air Line Pilot, May 1974, 12.
13. Wells, Blood on the Moon, 206–7.
14. Thomas, The First World Flight, 200.
15. Memorandum by Lowell H. Smith, Calcutta, India, 29 June 1924. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 8.
1. Wells, Blood on the Moon, 207.
2. Thomas, The First World Flight, 203.
3. Thomas, The First World Flight.
4. Arnold diary, 3 July 1924.
5. Wells, Blood on the Moon, 210.
6. Erik H. Nelson, Engineering Report of Round the World Flight, undated, 17. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series Two, Folder 4.
7. Arnold diary, 7 July 1924.
8. Story of the Round-the-World Flight, unsigned, undated. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series Eleven.
9. Arnold diary, 8 July 1924.
10. Arnold diary, 9 July 1924.
11. Thomas, The First World Flight, 219.
12. Arnold diary, 12 July 1924.
13. Thomas, The First World Flight, 231.
14. Arnold diary, 13 July 1924.
15. Thomas, The First World Flight, 232.
16. Thomas, 233.
17. Thomas, 236.
18. Untitled commentary by André Viollis, Le Petit Parisien, 15 July 1924.
19. Editorial, Le Matin, 16 July 1924.
20. Thomas, The First World Flight, 237–38.
21. Arnold diary, 15 July 1924.
22. Thomas, The First World Flight, 238.
1. Thomas, The First World Flight, 242.
2. Thomas, 243.
3. Arnold diary, 17 July 1924.
4. Thomas, The First World Flight, 248.
5. Unsigned memorandum for Capt. Pinney, USS Milwaukee, Indian Harbor, Labrador, 31 July 1924. National Archives RWF File, Box 8.
6. Unsigned memorandum for Capt. Pinney.
7. Arnold diary, 31 July 1924.
8. Signal Corps radiogram, Maj. Gen. Patrick to Lt. Clayton Bissell, c/o Commanding Officer, Cruiser Milwaukee, 29 July 1924. National Archives RWF file, Box 8.
9. Thomas, The First World Flight, 253.
10. As quoted in Ernest A. McKay, A World to Conquer (New York: Arco Publishing, 1981), 145.
11. Thomas, The First World Flight, 254.
12. Thomas, The First World Flight.
13. McKay, A World to Conquer, 145.
14. Thomas, The First World Flight, 256–57.
1. Thomas, The First World Flight, 238.
2. Marty Martinez, “Magellans of the Air,” 14.
3. Report, “U.S. Army Air Service Around the World Flight,” undated, 52–53. Wade/
Morrow Collection, Series One, Folder 8.
4. James H. Winchester, “First Round-the-World Flight.” Air Facts, August 1975, 20.
5. Arnold diary, 4 August 1924.
6. Memorandum, Chief of Air Service for Deputy Chief of Staff, 7 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
7. Memorandum, H. C. Pratt, Training and War Plans Division, for the Executive, Air Service, 9 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
8. Radio message from Smith to Chief of Air Service, 6 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
9. Martinez, “Magellans of the Air,” 16.
10. Radiogram, Smith to Chief of Air Service, 10 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
11. Thomas, The First World Flight, 270.
12. Quoted in fiftieth anniversary pamphlet titled “First Around the World,” published by Douglas Aircraft Company, 1974, 12.
13. Thomas, The First World Flight, 272.
14. Thomas, 273.
15. Thomas, 274.
16. Thomas, 275–76.
17. Thomas, 276.
18. Quoted in Chelsea Fraser, Heroes of the Air, 291–92.
19. C. R. Roseberry, The Challenging Sky, 73.
20. Thomas, The First World Flight, 284.
21. Radiogram, Bissell on USS Milwaukee to Chief of Air Service, 26 August 1924. National Archives, RWF File, Box 8.
1. Radiogram, White House (to be held until released) to Lt. Lowell H. Smith, USS Richmond, 14 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
2. Secret message relayed from Chief of Naval Operations to USS Milwaukee, 26 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
3. Confidential radio message, General Patrick through Chief of Naval Operations to USS Richmond, 28 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
4. Radio message, USS Milwaukee to Chief of Air Service, 25 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
5. Arnold diary, 31 August 1924.
6. Memorandum, H. C. Pratt, Training and War Plans Division, to Chief of Air Service,
25 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
7. The residents of Mere Point were proud that the World Fliers had made their first landing on United States soil there. Governor Percival P. Baxter promptly ordered a parcel of land procured for a state park and a large bronze tablet installed on a granite boulder titled “Maine’s Tribute to the American Round-the-World Aviators.”
8. Thomas, The First World Flight, 296.
9. Telegram, Edward P. Syosset, Long Island, to British Consul, Boston, 5 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
10. Telegram, George R. I., Balmoral Castle, England, to General Patrick, 8 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
11. Thomas, The First World Flight, 298.
12. Letter, Subject: “Instructions to Commanding Officer, Round-the-World Flight,” from W. G. Kilner, Executive, Adjutant General’s Office, 20 August 1920. National Archives, RWF file, Box 7.
13. Letter, “Instructions etc.”
14. Aviation, 22 September 1924.
15. Arnold diary, 8 September 1924.
16. Thomas, The First World Flight, 302.
17. Arnold diary, 12 September 1924.
18. The Barling bomber made its first flight on 22 August 1923. It had three wings, four rudders, six engines, and ten landing wheels. It could carry enough fuel to stay aloft thirteen hours, was designed for a crew of eleven, and was used by the Army Air Service to set duration and altitude records for lifting useful loads of about 4,400 to 6,600 pounds. But its top speed of 95.5 mph was considered too slow. It made its last flight in August 1925 and was destroyed in 1928.
19. Letter, Chief of Air Service to Commanding Officer, World Flight, 20 August 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
20. Thomas, The First World Flight, 306.
21. Thomas, 309.
22. U.S. Air Services, November 1924.
23. U.S. Air Services.
24. U.S. Air Services.
25. U.S. Air Services.
26. Los Angeles Evening Express, 23 September 1924.
27. Thomas, The First World Flight, 312.
28. Los Angeles Record, 23 September 1924.
29. San Francisco Chronicle, 2 September 1924.
30. Editorial, London Times, 30 September 1924.
31. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 29 September 1924.
32. Arnold diary, 28 September 1924.
33. Thomas, The First World Flight, 316.
1. Memorandum, Major H. C. Pratt, Chief, Training and War Plans Division, to the Executive, Air Service, 24 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
2. Thomas, The First World Flight, 317.
3. Memorandum, Mason M. Patrick, no addressee, 25 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
4. Telegram, W. A. Curley to John W. Weeks, 16 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
5. Telegram, William E. Dever to Secretary of War Weeks, 16 September 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
6. Telegram, Frank Carson to Secretary of War Weeks, 4 November 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
7. Thomas, The First World Flight, 320.
8. “Address of Welcome to the World Flyers,” by Eugene H. Angert, Racquet Club, St. Louis, 18 November 1924. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 8, Folder 1.
9. Message, Secretary of War to Commanding General, Ninth Corps Area, Presidio, San Francisco, 12 October 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
10. Bill sent to the Senate as H.R. 12064, 68th Congress, 2d Session, 17 February 1925. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series One, Box 8.
11. Lt. Lowell H. Smith, “Official Report of the United States Army Air Service Around the World Flight.” Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 4.
12. Lt. Erik H. Nelson, “Appendix A, Engineering Report of Round the World Flight,” undated. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 4.
13. Lt. L. P. Arnold, “Appendix C, Finance Report of Round the World Flight,” undated. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 4, 1.
14. Arnold, Finance Report, 2–3.
15. Lt. Lowell H. Smith, Commanding Officer, “Appendix D, Confidential Report, Round the World Flight,” undated. Wade/Morrow Collection, Series 1, Folder 2, 2.
16. Smith, Confidential Report, 3.
17. Smith, Confidential Report.
18. Second indorsement, Letter, Subject: “Disposition of Airplanes of the World Flight,” from Major W. G. Kilner, Executive Officer, Air Service, to the Adjutant General, U.S. Army, 28 April 1925. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
19. Letter, H. C. Pratt, Chief, Training and War Plans Division to Chief, Information Division, 9 February 1925. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
20. Letter, Major W. G. Kilner, Executive Officer, Air Service, to Clarence J. Bertler, Milwaukee, 12 June 1925. National Archives, RWF file, Box 8.
21. Unsigned letter, Engineering Division, McCook Field, to Commander, Langley Field, Va., 16 June 1924. National Archives, RWF file, Box 6.