Airmail: How It All Began

by Carroll V. Glines

Traces the history of airmail from the early use of homing pigeons through modern experiments with missile mail, and examines its role in the development of commercial aviation

165 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Carroll Vane Glines, who retired from the United States Air Force as a colonel after twenty-seven years of service, is historian for the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders and curator of the Doolittle Library at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been published in a number of publications and written and co-authored numerous books on military and aviation history.