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They've Got What it Takes!

LARGEST GROUP TO JOIN ARMY AIR CORPS

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A new group of pilot officers joined the Army Air Corps last Friday when they received commissions as second lieutenants at graduations exercises at the Tuskegee Army Flying school. Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., executive officer of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, delivered the address to the new pilots. 

Left to right: William Campbell, Tuskegee, Ala; William Ashley, Sumpter, S. C.; M. Caldwell, who washed out at the last minute and did not receive his commission; Herbert V. Clark, Pine Bluff, Ark.; George R. Bolling, Phoebus, Va.; Charles B. Hall, Brazil Ind.; P. Graham Mitchell, Washington, D. C.; Herbert C. Carter, Amory, Miss.; Louis R Purnell, Germantown, Pa.; Graham Smith, Ashoskie, N. C.; Allen G. Lane, Demopolis, Ala.; Spann Watson, Hackensack, N. J.; Faythe A. McGinnis, Muskogee, Okla,; James T. Wiley, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Irvin B. Lawrence, Cleveland, Ohio.