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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LOUIS FANCHER (1884-1944) OVER THERE! / IN THE AIR SERVICE. Circa 1918. 40x30 inches, 101 1/2x76 1/4 cm. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia. Condition B+: tears and creases in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; pin holes in corners. Paper. On May 24, 1918, President Wilson removed responsibility for American military aviation from the Signal Corps and placed it within two agencies under the supervision of the U.S. Army: the Bureau of Aircraft Production and the Division of Military Aeronautics. These two branches were officially recognized as the U.S. Army Air Service. Rawls p. 175.
