to Congress and mismanagement during the air mail operation. Foulois demanded that Rogers release the evidence against him (largely damning testimony from senior Army staff officers given during secret hearings) and garnered the full support of the normally hostile Secretary of War, George Dern. The matter finally went before the Army's inspector general, whose findings in June 1935 exonerated Foulois of any criminal wrongdoing, but did cite him for making misleading statements regarding the mail operation. He received a reprimand from Dern, but throughout the summer of 1935 was publicly excoriated by Rogers. With his term as Chief expiring in December 1935, he chose to retire concurrently and took terminal leave from the Air Corps, beginning in September. See also Airmails of the United States United States government role in civil aviation Notes Footnotes Citations References Borden, Norman E. Jr. (1968). Air Mail Emergency 1934: An Account of 78 Days in the Winter of 1934 When the Army Flew the United States Mail, The Bond Wheelwright Company Brady, Tim (2000). The American Aviation Experience: A History, Southern Illinois University Press. Coffey, Thomas M. (1982). Hap: The Story of the U.S. Air Force and the Man Who Built It. New York: The Viking Press. Correll, John L. "The Air Mail Fiasco", AIR FORCE Magazine, March 2008, Vol. 91, No. 3 Duffy, James P. (2010). Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America. Washington, D.C.:Regnery Publishing. Frisbee, John L. "AACMO—Fiasco or Victory?", AIR FORCE Magazine, March 1995, Vol. 78 No. 3 Glines, Carroll F. "The Airmail Takes Wings", Aerofiles.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04 Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. "Barnstorming the U.S. Mail", American Heritage August 1974; Volume 25, Issue 5, pp. 32–35 Hopkins, George E. (1982). Flying the Line: The First Half Century of the Air Line Pilots Association. Washington, D.C.:ALPA. Lee, David D. "Senator Black's Investigation of the Airmail, 1933-1934", The Historian Spring 1991; Volume 53, pp. 423–442 Maurer, Maurer (1987). Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919–1939, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C. Nalty, Bernard C. (1997). Winged Shield, Winged Sword: A History of the United States Air Force, Orenic, Liesl (2009). On the Ground: Labor Struggles in the American Airline Industry. University of Illinois Press. Pelletier, Alain (2010). Boeing: The Complete Story, Haynes Publishing: Sparkford, Somerset, UK Rice, Rondall Ravon (2004). The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations, University of Nebraska Press. Russell, David