This website is dedicated to the men and women of the U.S. Air Mail
Service, a little-remembered organization that laid the foundation for
commercial aviation worldwide. With the cooperation of the U.S. Air
Service, the U.S. Post Office flew the mail from 1918 until 1927.
Air Mail Service pilots are the unsung heroes of early aviation. In
their frail Curtiss Jennies and postwar de Havillands, they battled
wind, snow, and sleet to pioneer round-the-clock airmail service along
the world's longest air route, the U.S. transcontinental. In the
process, thirty-four pilots lost their lives.
Through profiles, photographs and historical articles, this Internet
website brings to life the human drama of those early days in aviation's
infancy.
