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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.

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[Between 1941 And 1945]
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  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. American
  4. Army Air Forces
  5. Military Air Pilots
  6. Military Personnel
  7. Military Service
  8. People
  9. Photographic Prints
  10. Tuskegee Army Air Field
  11. United States
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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