Balloon Team

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This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

The US military employed several different kinds of balloons. Edward Ward worked with balloons in the Aeronautical Division of the Signal Corps.
Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society

This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2300 in Pine Knot remembers Corporal Edward Ward, the first US soldier named to the military’s new aviation program in 1907. To say that the US military was intrigued with the…