General Armstrong's monuments.

Abstract

During his term as surgeon general, Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong was interested in the French monument commemorating the balloon flight of John Jeffries, the first American aviator, and Jean Pierre Blanchard. Maj. Gen. Armstrong proposed to visit the monument, located in a French forest, and have it renovated with appropriate multi-national ceremonies. The monument is at the landing site of the first flight across the English Channel. The authors discovered the former and current condition of the monument in Guines, France and compare that monument, of interest to Maj. Gen. Armstrong, to a new monument named for him, the newly enlarged U.S.A.F. Armstrong Laboratory.