The Junior Birdmen of America was an club for boys interested in building model airplanes, founded (ca. 1934) and promoted by the Hearst newspapers, with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce.[1]
It is now best remembered for the song "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen", which has been sung with a variety of lyrics to mock would-be or inexperienced aviators.[2][3][4] In a sequence in the 1955 film To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy's infantry companions irritate a group of Air Corpsmen by singing a version of the song.