The Junior Birdmen of America was a national organization for boys and girls interested in aviation and model plane building, founded (ca.
The Hearst Newspapers supported the program with daily and weekly articles, and with local and national events and competitions sponsored around the country.
Hearst newspapers also ceased publishing the official daily column of the JBA and the Sunday Birdmen Feature Page in August 1937.
The new Junior Birdmen of America organization and United Air Lines sponsored a scholarship award program in 1937 for an 18-month course in airline operations at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, Calif., which included free air transport to and from the school and living expenses while attending classes.
[7][8][9][10] In a sequence in the hugely successful 1955 film, To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy's infantry companions irritate a group of Army Air Corpsmen by singing a version of the song.