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[African American Army Air Force group at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama]

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[Between 1941 And 1945]
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. American
  4. Army Air Forces
  5. Group Portraits
  6. Military Personnel
  7. Military Service
  8. People
  9. Photographic Prints
  10. Portrait Photographs
  11. Tuskegee Army Air Field
  12. United States
  13. World War, 1939 1945

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Negro aviators, Tuskegee, Alabama. Basic & Advanced Flying School Lt. Donald B. McPherson, Air Corps Director of Basic Training explaining a cross country flight on map in classroom as cadets look on. Writes marching song for TAAF NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama [Seven pilots(?) on airplane, Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama] Plot way for fighter pilots Enlisted men at work at the Post Operations mapping out cross-country flights for TAFS's pursuit pilots. Control tower High in the air overlooking the field and surrounding terrain men such as these guide and direct the air traffic at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Weather observation Members of the weather detachment in the process of making their daily weather observations. Lt. Wallace P. Reed, Chief Weather Officer, takes the morning temperature reading while one of his assistants climbs aloft to adjust the anemometer. Tuskegee adds training program Introducing a group of student officers to the new liaison plane at the Tuskegee Army Air Field is Second Lieutenant Curry, liaison instructor. Puttin' and takin' A class in P-40 instruments learns how to take 'em apart and put 'em back together again - with no parts left over either! Maintenance Mechanics on the flight line remove an engine from a trainer plane for repair. A serious task Members of the Armament Section busily engaged in mounting 30-caliber machine guns in the wings of a P-40 prior to its departure on a gunnery mission. Heads Link Trainer Sect. at TAAF Lt. William R. Walls, head of the Link Trainer Section at the Tuskegee Army Air Field shows Aviation Cadet Carroll H. Robinson of Atlanta, Georgia how to check his instrument panel while flying under adverse weather conditions. With a fifteenth air force service command air service group in Italy [Learning about engines] Fuel system being explained Learning about engines [Black fighter pilot series--Colonel Benjamin O. Davis seated with pilots at briefing in Italy] Godman Field, Ky. NAACP photographs of African American soldiers in the Army Air Force, primarily during World War II [Colonel Richard C. Cumming putting insignia on Chaplain Douglas L.T. Robinson, Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama]
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