1918 WWI 'BEAUMONT BULL' AEF CAMP/TRENCH NEWSPAPER -original- US ARMY AIR CORPS

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vintage, original Feb. 11, 1918 no. 1 issue of the 'Beaumont Bull,' trench newspaper for the Air Services/first Air Corps 'Beaumont Detachment' based in France during World War One, as a part of the AEF: American Expeditionary Forces--original item/ 9 by 11 in., 4 pages printed on thin newsprint paper--earliest beginnings of the US Military involvement in Air power: essentially the seeds for the US Air Corps/USAF--interesting look into the backwater parts of the War to where these trained pilots were transported--includes four relevant Poems from the boys, including one titled 'The Air Raid'  --
--Very Rare--
info from Aero Conservancy site
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AEF Air Service
In the first World War, aircraft were first introduced to the battlefield. Recognizing the significance, Maj Gen Mason Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, instructed Col Edgar S Gorrell, Assistant Chief of Staff of the Air Service, to gather all information that would "assist in establishing Army aeronautics on a sound basis for the future."
"Beaumont Detachment"-an infamous holding pool for pilots in France. Pilots had come to fight, only to find themselves spending months hanging around in the pool awaiting assignment as the military bureaucracy moved slowly.
from 2006 thread: "Anybody Know Where I Can View A Full Copy Or An Original Of The First Issue Of The "beaumont Bull" Dated Feb 11, 1918? Its On Page 47 Of America's First Eagles.
Original is very scarce but included in the microfilmed Gorrell Report at the National Archives... The first issue is just two double-sided pages. There were only six issues in all.
Haverty was a member of the Beaumont Detachment. You can read a little bit about him at The Aero Conservancy,  virtual museum, if interested
from a 2010 Aero Conservancy Auction:
"A French aviator Brevet D’Aviateur Militaire certificate to a pilot in the 33rd Aero Squadron of the A.E.F., 1st Lieutenant Robert Haverty, dated 1-July-1918.
Haverty hailed from the famous Haverty family, makers of fine American furniture, and still in business today. Born 17-June-1889 in Atlanta, Georgia, he grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. When he arrived in France, he became a member by happenstance of the “Beaumont Detachment,” an infamous holding pool for pilots in France. Pilots had come to fight, only to find themselves spending months hanging around in the pool awaiting assignment as the military bureaucracy moved slowly. A photocopy of the first and second issues of the unit’s newspaper, the "Beaumont Bull," are included with this lot. Eventually he was assigned to the 33 Aero Squadron which, according to one source, "arrived as a unit at Issoudon (aviation training establishment in France) during the late fall of 1917, assigned to Field #6 or 7 as Cadre and helped to build the barracks and hangars in one of the worst winter's on record. Their job was repair of aircraft (minor), teaching, feeding and housing the students assigned to them. They left France in about May or April 1919."
The front page of the 18 November 1930 edition of the "Memphis Evening Appeal" reports the formation by Major Robert Haverty of the 105th Observation Squadron, “a Tennessee State unit,” and goes on to say that “Maj. Haverty was attached to the 33rd Aero Squadron at Issoudon France. At the time of his enlistment, he knew that his eyesight was not up to wartime regulations so he memorized the vision charts so he could fight in the air.”
Lot includes the certificate and its original frame as well as the original edition of the Memphis newspaper cited and photocopies of the Beaumont Bull.
Lot 067, reserve price 0"
This has moderate wear: has been folded several times with a little handling wear/penned notation at the top front/penciled to one side: both seem relevant to the item and actually add to the interest in my opinion.
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