Joint resolution to authorize the presentation of an Air Force Medal of Recognition to Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, retired
PL 88-107 (S.J.Res.51), enacted 08/27/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-107-AUG. 27, 1963 
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Public Law 88-106 
AN ACT 
To continue, for the period ending November 30, 1963, the existing temporary 
increase in the public debt limit set forth in section 21 of the Second Liberty 
Bond Act. 
August 27, 1963 
[H. R. 7824] 
Be it enaated hy the Semite and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress asseinbled, That, during the 
period beginning on September 1, 1963, and ending on November 30, 
1963, the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence of section 21 
of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended (31 IJ.S.C. 757b), shall 
be temporarily increased to $309,000,000,000. 
Approved August 27, 1963. 
Debt limit. 
Temporary in-
Ante, p. 50. 
Public Law 88-107 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
August 27, 1963 
[S. J. Res..51] 
To authorize the presentation of an Air Force Medal of Recognition to Major 
General Benjamin D. Foulois, retired. 
Whereas Major General Benjamin D. Foulois (retired) enlisted in the 
Army Corps of Engineers on July 7, 1898, was suosequently com-
missioned as an officer in the Army, became associated with the 
aviation section of the Signal Corps of the Army in 1908, and 
qualified as a pilot in 1909; and 
Whereas during the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1915 and 1916, 
he commanded the First Aero Squadron with that expedition; and 
Whereas during World War I he served as Chief of the Air Services 
of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, was elevated to 
the post of Assistant Chief of the Air Corps in 1927, became Chief 
of the Army Air Corps in 1931, and continued in that assignment 
until his retirement as a major general on December 31,1935; and 
Whereas Major Gjreneral Benjamin D. Foulois (retired), during his 
twenty-seven y^ars of commissioned service, played a major role 
in the development of the role of military air power and of the 
military department now having primary cognizance over military 
air power, the United States Air Force; and 
Whereas General Foulois, now nearly eighty-four years of age, has 
devoted twenty-seven years in a retired status to the furtherance of 
aviation, which matches the twenty-seven years of his active com-
missioned service in behalf of aviation, and totals fifty-four years 
of uninterrupted dedication and service to the development of 
aviation; and 
Whereas military decorations and awards in specific recognition of 
aviation service were not authorized during the active military 
career of General Foulois and he has, therefore, never received a 
military decoration or award for such service: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved 
by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
Maj. Gen. sen-
of the Air Force is authorized to cause an appropriate medal to be ja""!" D. FOUIOIS 
struck, with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, in recognition ^
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of more than fifty years of devoted service by Major General Benjamin 
D. Foulois (retired) to the advancement of aviation and to present 
said medal to Major General Benjamin D. Foulois (retired), together 
with a copy of this joint resolution engrossed on parchment. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropri-
ated, such sum as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
joint resolution. 
Approved August 27, 1963. 
Appropriation 
authorization.