Air Service Journal

The Air Service Journal offered news from the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy air services.

It began publication on 12 July 1917.

To give as completely as war conditions will permit of all the news of the Army and Navy Air Service is the single aim of the Air Service Journal. The expansion of the aeronautical branches as provided for by the organization measure now pending before Congress will be rapid. The new Air Service will contain more officers and men than were included in the entire regular Army before the war.
This important organization requires a specialized publication devoted exclusively to its interests, to record all happenings, to relate progress and to tell of personnel. The Air Service Journal will do this; it will print the particular news in which the Service is vitally interested; it will chronicle the real news of the Service, of foreign events in the air, news of the entire aircraft industry, and it will be illustrated with timely aeronautical pictures of unusual interest. Special articles on military and naval aeronautics that will be of assistance and interest to officers and enlisted men will appear in every issue.

The first issue contained the text of the aforementioned Air Service bill, and information on the Aircraft Production Board.

Office:

In the effort of this journal to serve every interest of the Air Services of the Government and the field of aviation in general, it has facilities in its Washington office, 308–310 Evening Star Building, for posting all members of the Army and Navy Air Services and others interested in the daily events occurring in the field of aviation, and keeping them in touch with each other.
The Washington office is not maintained solely for the purpose of gathering news, but for the benefit of subscribers and the general public. To this end, files of all the aeronautical publications are maintained, and a bulletin board, posted to date, is used to display aeronautical events as recorded in the daily press and Government bulletins. (Vol. 1, No. 4; August 2, 1917; p. 111)