Overseas Dreams 2nd Provisional Wing TEXANA WWI 1919

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WWI Flyers Description: Overseas Dreams: Second Provisional Wing Gulfport Printing Co., Houston, TX, 1919. First Edition. Illustrated with many black & white & two color photos. Packed with advertisements for Houston area businesses. The boards are wrapped in doped linen from the wings of wrecked airplanes. This scarce book includes numerous photos of planes and aviators, lists of pilots in training and officers, poetry and humoroyus sketches, accounts of training, a roll of honor, etc. It's a sort of annual for World War One military aviators in Camp Travis (now defunct) near San Antonio. When the United States entered World War I, thirty-two training camps were set up. Half of them were "tent cities" and were for National Guard Units while the other half had wooden barracks for the regular Army. Camp Travis was situated a few miles from downtown San Antonio adjoining Fort Sam Houston . Originally the name was Camp Wilson, named after the man who "kept us out of war." It was the point from which troops were mobilized in 1916 to quell the Mexican Border Crisis brought upon by the Mexican Revolution. With the formation of the 90th Division in 1917, it was renamed Camp Travis after William B. Travis of Alamo fame . This copy is in good condition, with some shelfwear, bumping to the corners, several scratches to the covers, read more

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