Flight Instructors at Tuskegee Army Air Field (1945)

Several Black men in three rows (sitting, kneeling, standing), all in dark flight suits, boots, and goggled helmets, in front of biplanes. Some men's signatures are next to their photograph.

A photograph of the “Tuskegee Instructors” at Tuskegee Army Air Field, August 1945, by an unidentified photographer (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, NASM 99-15439)

AP African American Studies Guide

The Flight Instructor Staff at Tuskegee Army Air Field (1945)

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