Odas Moon

Odas Moon
Odas Moon in 1929
BornFebruary 11, 1892[1]
Alabama, U.S.
DiedNovember 19, 1937[2]
Old Point Comfort, Virginia, U.S.
Allegiance United States
Service / branch U.S. Army Air Service
U.S. Army Air Corps
Years of service1917–1937
Rank Major

Odas Moon (February 11, 1892 – November 19, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer who was among a team of United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) aviators to break endurance records by performing aerial refueling. Moon was a founding member of the Order of Daedalians.[3] Through his teaching and leadership at the Air Corps Tactical School, Moon helped shape and promote the concept of daylight precision bombing, using heavy bombers.

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
  2. ^ U.S. Army Register, p. 829. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Daedalians was invoked but never defined (see the help page).