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J I150 to GetNo. 2. Now recruit beginsCAA Pilotlearning the art of becoming 1 welder.No. 4. Highly trained radio technicians install radio in fight- • _er plane. .................— . JNo. 1. Non-commissioned officers instructing enlisted students in the mechanics of the basic 1 .trainer plane.______—--- .'*1lit* ® ^1AoimumNo—2. Paraehutr'Tiifmjr—mdrt-fduarmitesflying officers. Their rankriggers—pro-; —£ei»irA/-A m ~ -mark of skill and efficiency.. In.ClilCAGQ-~(ANP Seventy-five, addition to their other duties, they jof 150 colored men to bo given j instruct other, enlisted men toJ. ibasic aviation training by the Civil! master thr art of assuring safety Ii Aeronautics Authority to prepare r'*° the. pilot. . Ijthem totheomm . pan annFfilclt;wetserve with the army will _.be trained at the CofTey School obstructed. Some §60,000 worth of »j.r.Aeronautics at Harlem Airport i government equipment will be *,here, it was learned last week, imoved from the ground school atThe other seventy-five will be; Wendell Phillips High School 'to:. n(trained at.Tuskegee Institute, Ala..;the airport, Mis* Drown slated : Charles I. Stanton, acting civil'The students at CofTey School will' .. aeronautics administrator, an- receive upon graduation the same ‘ ,nouncetT* .enlisted ratings granted otherMiss Willa B. Brown, pioneer jn|graduates. Soldiers will be traincdi jur)i1the field of air training,, -is co-or* dinator of the civilian pilot training course at the school. She states ‘that the present pilot, training policy is a partial victory in freeing the bottleneck which prevent-fed .the training of colored persons as pilots.The program was temporarily halted, she said, when the army took over .'civilian pilot training July 1. Many civilian training schools were sought to qualify deb., but their training was held up because of the limited facilitiesto become-glider, transport and; liaison pilots and for duty as in-i T structors in army primary UightiP'cschools.IColIn Washington. Mr. Stanton de-J nicd that CAA rvcr had any racial jantl bars. Civilian pilot training courses; *Kai haCf graduated' ;3h colored peri, T sons, he pointed out. froiDevens’s Soldiers Sing closed, studentsion Major Bowes’s Hourify as aviation ca-FORT DKVENS. Mass.- PrivateAlvin Thomas and Sergeant Mnx-Aui Thi cial are mo i toprovided for them in the army ell Armstrong of the 3G6th In- ! congraining programs, she declared, jfantrv stationed here, won over ! traiBe Ready Oct. 1j thirty-two other contestants for sailt; orQuarters f6r housing the stu- fry-oilts on the Major Bowes dents, who will begin training, Amateur Show, appearing Scptem-about October 1. arc being con- her 3 and 10 respectively.notthe
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Tue, Sep 15, 1942
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