

Navy and the newly created Army Air Corps. Men who had experience in the logging industry found themselves fighting the war not in the trenches in Europe but in the forests of the Pacific Northwest cutting Sitka spruce destined to be made into airplanes for the U. The Federal Government immediately began to mobilize American society to meet the demands of "total war." The Boeing Airplane Company was established in 1916 in Seattle and by 1918 was building airplanes for the U. In April 1917 the United States entered World War I against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
