“1. The reciprocal agreement made last autumn by yourself and the Chief Signal Officer of the Army having successfully accomplished its purpose, I desire to express to you my appreciation of the manner in which the Royal Air Force, under your directions, has fulfilled its part of the arrangement.
“2. By its faithful and efficient work in the training of our cadets and enlisted personnel, the Royal Air Forces has conferred a great and practical benefit on the United States Air Service.
“3. Equally important is the imponderable but undoubted benefit which has accrued to our men from instruction by and association with officers and men who have had practical experience, at the front, with the conditions which we are preparing to meet. This contact, so desired by all our forces and so particularly influential in the training of a wholly new arm of the service, would, but for your assistance, have been denied to all the men training for the Air Service in this country.
“4. The following is quoted from the report of our Commanding Officer, Taliaferro Fields. ‘I am of the opinion that the reciprocal agreement between the Chief Signal Officer of the Army and the General Officer Commanding, Royal Flying Corps, has proven an entire success, and that outside of the training actually given at the fields here, the influence of the Royal Flying Corps in Texas and our association with that Corps in Canada has had a far-reaching and decidedly beneficial effect on our flying fields, throughout the United States.’ With the sentiment herein expressed I am in complete accord, and can wish no better for the United States Air Service than that it may duplicate the high endeavor and equally high accomplishment which has distinguished the Royal Flying Corps, and now distinguishes, in no less abundant measure, the Royal Air Force.
“W. L. KENLY,
“Major-General N.A.,
“Chief of the Air Service.”
PART OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
