Skip to main content

PEACOCK, James LeRoy (b. 1920)

Oral Histories

OH 1876

Flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Airfield. Childhood in Macon, Georgia; Army Air Corps flight training; selection as a flight instructor; assignment to Tuskegee Army Airfield; segregation at Tuskegee; reaction of white community to black pilots; reassignment as a bomber pilot; transition to Reserves at end of war; discharge form Reserves; thoughts on time at Tuskegee; post-military life.