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Tagged with "Civilian Pilot Training Program"

  • Mechanical engineer. His experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His pre-service work experiences assembling the B-26 for the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland; flying characteristics of the B-26; basic…
  • His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1942…
  • Public school administrator. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. His decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Civilian Pilot Training Program, Sherman, Texas, 1941-42; pre-flight…
  • Educator. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot n the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Graduation from North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas, 192; enlistment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Civilian Pilot Training…
  • Civil engineer. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) co-pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His early interest in aviation; enlistment in the Navy, April, 1942; and primary and secondary flight training through the Civilian Pilot…
  • For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran and flight instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas; early love of flying; decision to attend Tuskegee Institute and 1940…
  • Test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Childhood in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois; work as a young man in the oil fields; family’s experience in the Great Depression; matriculation at Kansas University; enrollment in…