Bibliography and References for Biographical Sketches on: Harold Harris, Albert Hegenberger, Oakley Kelly, Lester Maitland and John Macready By Prof. Justin Libby Acknowledgements: There are, in the course of researching and writing an essay, so many courteous, knowledgeable and gifted archivists who have made the endeavor possible. One of the great joys of any researcher and writer on aviation topics is to visit and become acquainted with the library staff at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and the personnel at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. whose assistance is great appreciated. In particular, I owe a great debt to Mrs. Kate Igoe who opened the relevant files to me and answered my many questions with not only a great knowledge of the materials but with grace, courtesy and profound patience. Mr. Michael Barnes was most helpful in providing the photographs appearing in my study. Another bonus in accomplishing this project was the experience in researching at the Paul Luarance (correct spelling) Dunbar Library on the campus of Wright State University in Dayton-Fairborn, Ohio where John Armstrong was my host along with his friendly and courteous staff in searching out information not only relating to Harold R. Harris as well as other aviators. General Harris surely deserves a separate essay chronicling the life and the achievements of this remarkable pioneering aviator, successful executive businessman and consummate patriot. I also had the privilege of meeting Brett Stolle at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Archives who was so kind in guiding me through the holdings at his location and provided me with the files on the careers of Harold Harris, Albert Hegenberger, Oakley Kelly, Lester Maitland and John Macready and several other aviation personalities. The interested readers in the Army Air Service, the Army Air Corps, the AAAF and the United States Air Force are encouraged to review the files at the air base. The visitor to the archives will need permission to review the materials as well as require accompaniment onto the air base and I would recommend first e-mailing Mr. Stolle at Brett.Stolle @wpafb.af.mil and informing him of your research objectives and intended arrival time. At the Pima Air and Space Museum/Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, Arizona it was a pleasure to have met both James Stemm who assisted me with the Jack Frye essay published previously in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal, Volume LIII (Fall. 2008), 181-204 and Andrew Boehly who made files readily available especially pertaining to Lester Maitland and Oakley Kelly. For a researcher one could not find a more accommodating and knowledgeable staff. I would also like to thank Mr. Carol Cox of the Air Force Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama for so kindly providing me with information in the agency’s files relating to the airmen who were the focus of this study that were included in the Muir Fairchild MSS. While researching at that magnificent repository of aviation history I was ably assisted by Mr. Joseph Caver, Ms. Tammy Horton and Mr. Sylvester Jackson who can be easily reached at www.au.af.mil/au.afhra. In particular, Ms. Horton never lost her patience and graciousness in answering my myriad of questions. Nearby at the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center and Library the courtesies extended to me were so appreciated especially by Susan Lipscomb, Sandhya Malladi, Carrie Springer and Tony Waterman. It should be noted that I owe Ms. Malladi a profound thank you for the battle we had with a recalcitrant copier and the ultimate victory we achieved over its malfunctioning behavior. The personnel at this beautifully groomed air base are so accommodating and welcoming to researchers. I should also like to extend my gratitude to the archivists at the United States War College Library in Carlisle, Pennsylvania who have always been most hospitable and I also wish to thank Wendy Swik and Susan Lintlemann at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York for their kind assistance. In the same area as the academy no researcher writing on the period of the 1930s can ignore the files at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York and once again I wish to thank Virginia Lewick, Mark Renovitch and Matthew Hanson for their hospitality and professional assistance. At the library there is little information on Maitland and Hegenberger but the interested reader should consult the Presidential Official File, “Lester Maitland-Albert Hegenberger” folder. Finally, I wish once again to thank Indiana University for its continuing financial support. - 1 - Bibiography: Orville Wright once commented that “Not within a thousand years will man ever fly”. (1901). This Bibliography is a testimonial and a tribute to the human desire and tenacity to achieve what many believed was an impossible dream. The reader is encouraged to review the life, achievements and flights of Albert Hegenberger, Oakley Kelly, Lester Maitland and John Macready that are housed in the Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Reading Rooms, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. The relevant information is contained in the “American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics”, Boxes 49 and 87, Hegenberger files. No reader of the air service in World War I can ignore Edgar S. Gorrell’s History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917-1919 (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Record Group 120, 1975). During that conflict General Mason Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, instructed Colonel Gorrell to gather all information that would “assist in establishing Army aeronautics on a sound basis for the future. Gorrell later became president of the Air Transport Association of America. The reader might find interesting the essay by General Laurence S. Kuter (RET.), “Edgar Gorrell’s Concept of War,” Air Force Magazine, LXI (Apr. 1978), 80-82; The textural records to review include Record Group 18 (RG-18) which are the Records of the Army Air Forces covering the period 1914-1947 including records of the Chief of the Air Service and Chief of the Air Corps with some records as late as 1955 containing 4,700 cubic feet. Within RG-18 includes the personal papers of generals Mason M. Patrick, James E. Fechet and Frank M. Andrews; Record Group 98, Records of the United States Army Command; Record Group 107, Records of the Office of the Secretary of War; Record Group 111, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer; Record Group 120, Records of the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1921; Record Group 165 contains the Records of the War Department and Special Staff, 1903-1947; Record Group 319 covering the Office of the Adjutant General-Records of the Army Staff 1939; Record Group 331 which is the record of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces and Supreme Headquarters Expeditionary Forces; Record Group 339 which includes Records of Headquarters Army Air Forces; Record Group 340, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; Record Group 341, Records of Headquarters United States Air Force and Record Group 407 contains the Records of the Adjutant General’s office, 1917-1958 A primary archive for the students of aviation is at the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) located at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama is the Muir Fairchild MSS noted above and for the Kelly-Macready flight under the command of Major M. A. Strauss an interesting review of the pioneering effort can be found in “Kelly- Macready Non-Stop Transcontinental Flight, New York-San Diego, May 2-3, 1923,” having the Call Number 248.211.86-98B, Folder 989B. In the same call number sequence also consult, “Report of Transcontinental Flight U. S. Army Airship C-2, October, 1922,” found in folder 98A. See also Call Number 168.7490.7, “Maitland Manuscript,” pages 198-200, Box 16. Material on Maitland in the archive can be found in Call Number 168.7487-9-168.7490-8, Box16, “Maitland, Lester J.: Miscellaneous Correspondence”. There is a letter from Antony Fokker to Maitland dated 8 July 1927 congratulating him on the Hawaiian flight can be found in “Maitland, Lester J.: Letter from Mr. Fokker,” Call Number 168.7490-5, Box16. Also in Box 16 see the following: Letter from Hegenberger to Maitland, 8 March 1927, 15 March 1927 and 12 April 1927 Call Number 168.7490-6 regarding radio equipment for the flight as well as tests of the aircraft and in Call Number 168.7490-7 there is a brief sketch of the air program of the United States by Maitland. In the sketch Kelly and Macready appear on pages 197-199 and Maitland’s comments on Alexander Pearson who died so very young tragically appears in page 186. Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Biographies and Dictionaries in Chronological Order of Publication: “Rudolph William Schroeder,” in Maxine Block, ed., Current Biography 1941 (New York: H. W. Wilson and Company, 1941), 761-762. Extremely helpful in researching the history of Army aviation were Lewis H. Brereton, The Brereton Diaries: The War in the Pacific, Middle East and Europe (New York: Morrow, 1946); Paul Brockett, Bibliography of Aeronautics (Washington: Smithsonian, 1910) and his Bibliography of Aeronautics, 1901-1916 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921); The Aircraft Year Book (New York: Manufacturers Aircraft Association, 1919- 1921); Flint O. Dupre, ed:, U.S. Air Force Biographical Dictionary ( New York: Franklin Watts, 1965); In that publication essays are as follows: Doolittle, 57-59; Hegenberger, 102, Maitland, 158-159 and Mitchell, 169-171. There are no essays focusing on Kelly or Macready in Lester D. Gardner, Who’s Who in American Aeronautics (2nd ed: New York: The Gardner Publishing Company, 1925); Bibliography of Aeronautics, 1900-1932 (14 vols: Washington: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1921-1936); For the 1920s and 1930s in particular see, Max B.