James L. Bahl, First Lieutenant. Raymond P. Baldwin, First Lieutenant. Arthur M. Beach, First Lieutenant. Allen W. Bevin, First Lieutenant. Gilbert P. Bogart, First Lieutenant. Arthur F. Clement, First Lieutenant. William G. Cochran, First Lieutenant. De Witt Coleman, Jr., First Lieutenant. Kenneth G. Collins, First Lieutenant. Alexander M. Craig, First Lieutenant. Herbert C. Dobbs, Jr., First Lieutenant. Edmund A. Donnan, First Lieutenant. Norton Downs, Jr., First Lieutenant. Arthur D. Farquhar, First Lieutenant. Harry S. Kinkenstaedt, First Lieutenant. Willis S. Fitch, First Lieutenant. Donald G. Frost, First Lieutenant. William O. Frost, First Lieutenant. James P. Hanley, Jr., First Lieutenant. Spencer L. Hart, Second Lieutenant. George C. Hering, First Lieutenant. Wallace Hoggson, First Lieutenant. Gosta A. Johnson, First Lieutenant. James Kennedy, Second Lieutenant. LeRoy D. Kiley, First Lieutenant. Herman F. Kreuger, First Lieutenant. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Major. Paton MacGilvary, First Lieutenant. Oble Mitchell, First Lieutenant. William H. Potthoff, First Lieutenant. Aubrey G. Russel, First Lieutenant. William B. Shelton, First Lieutenant. Norman Sweetser, First Lieutenant. Norman Terry, Second Lieutenant. Emory E. Watchorn, First Lieutenant. Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, First Lieutenant. Warren Wheeler, First Lieutenant. Alfred S. R. Wilson, First Lieutenant. Warren S. Wilson, First Lieutenant. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS, _November 3, 1918._ SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the annual report of the Division of Military Aeronautics for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. Though the Division of Military Aeronautics was created only on April 24, 1917, it was agreed that the duties intrusted to it and previously carried out by the Signal Corps should be covered in this report in order to present a continuous story of the development of the personnel, training, and organizing phases of the present Air Service. Also it should be pointed out that operations on the front in France have been left largely to whatever report the American Expeditionary Force may deem wise. The fiscal year 1917-18 saw aviation develop from a wholly subsidiary branch of the Army as the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps to a position of extreme and decisive importance as the Air Service, directly under the Chief of Staff. From the most insignificant beginnings it came within the year to be one of America’s major efforts in the war.