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Fourth Class At Air School Is Largest

TUSKEGEE, Ala. -- "I would say that, at this time, this school has graduated pilots who can fly no better and no worse than the graduates of other air corps schools," declared Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., executive officer for troops at the Tuskegee Army Flying School, in an address to the fourth class of graduates here Friday, July 3.

Colonel Davis delivered the principal address to this class, the largest in the history of the air base to date. Colone Frederick V. H. Kimble, commanding officer, delivered the diplomas to the graduates, while Lieutenant Colonel Noel F. Parrish, director of training, pinned the wings on the new second lieutenants.

Col. Davis went on to say:
"Most people who visit this post go away with the impression that we are over the hump, that the job is done.

"It is done in the same sense that you have a military pilot in an individual who can take an airplane off the ground and land it. So much has been demonstrated but this cannot be the complete answer.

COMBAT REAL TEST
"The only valid test of a fighting unit is in its ability to account for itself in combat. So, understand then, that your work has just begun.

"You are John Doe, second lieutenant, Army Air Forces, who knows something about military life and something about flying.

"You have a great deal to learn about administrative

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