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Over 200 pilots flew mail as employees of the Post Office Department's Air Mail Service. When hired, all agreed to the service's rules, including a demand, unique among aviators, that the schedule was paramount. Pilots were expected to keep the mail moving at all costs.
Thirty-five pilots gave their lives flying America's airmail in the early years of the service. Click on a name to learn more about that pilot.
- Ames, Charles Hayden
- Blanchfield, William F.
- Brown, Howard C.
- Bunting, Walter M.
- Carroll, William M.
- Charlton, John P. Jr.
- Christensen, James Titus
- Doty, Lyman W.
- Gautier, Robert
- Gilbert, Clarence A
- Hopson, William C.
- Hyde-Pearson, Leonard Brooke
- Lamborn, Charles W.
- Leonhardt, Elmer G.
- Lewis, William E.
- McCandless, W. J.
- McCusker, Frank
- McMullen, Bryan
- Milatzo, John F.
- Miller, Max
- Moore, James F. "Dinty"
- Oakes, Paul S.
- Robinson, Frederic A.
- Rowe, Hiram H.
- Sherlock, Harry C.
- Smith, Arthur Roy
- Smith, Carl B.
- Smith, Howard F.
- Smith, Walter J.
- Stevens, Walter H. S.
- Stewart, Kenneth M.
- Stoner, Clayton W.
- Vanatta, Elmer R.
- Woodward, John P.
- Wright, Richard W.
