Four rare “pioneer airmail” letters sent by an officer assigned to the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment during the General Pershing’s Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition from within Mexico to his wife at Fort Riley, Kansas
Various location in Mexico: 1916. Envelope or Cover. Although two previous U.S. experimental airmail flights occurred in 1911, it wasn’t until 1916 during the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition that the first real U. S. airmail service was begun by the Army’s 1st Aero Squadron and its eight JN-3 Curtis-Jenny aircraft..... More
