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The Making Of Fighter Pilots

[cutoff]]OTS GET THEIR WINGS AT TUSKEGEE'S FAMED FLYING SCHOOL

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[cutoff]]lity to fly and fight in the armed
States, these copper-colored bird-
[cutoff]]oveted wings at a solemn and im-
[cutoff]]the graduation of Tuskegee Army
[cutoff]]bama, July 3.

Cadet James Wiley, 706 Woods
[cutoff]]side, Pittsburg, was promoted to
the Army Air force. He attended
[cutoff]]ttsburgh, where he was an honor student prior to his entrance into the Army. Lieut. Louis Rayfield Purnell, 181 W. Weaver street, Germantown, Philadelphia. Lieutenant Purnell attended Lincoln university. His parents reside in Cape May, N.J. Liety. Paul Graham Mitchell, 908 Howard street, S.E., Washington, D.C.; Lieutenant Graham attended Hampton institute before entering the Army. Lieut. Spann Watson, 122 John street, Hackensack, N.J., attended Howard university where he was a letter man in baseball and track. Lieut. Faythe Andrew McGinnis, of 509 Howard street, Muskogee, Okla., attended Langston university prior to his Army career, where he was a letter man in football. Lieutenant McGinnis is an Alpha Phi Alpha man. Lieut. Allen Gaston Lane, of Demopolis, Ala., a Tuskegee student, was formers a junior typist at the air base Post Exchange, Tuskegee. Lieut. George Richard Bolling, 21 Cummings avenue, Phoebus, Va., attended Hampton institute, where he too his B.S. degree. Lieut. Herbert Eugene Carter, from Armory, Miss., was a member of the National Honor society at Tuskegee by virtue of his scholastic record. Lieut. Charles Blakely Hall, 1024 East Hendricks street, Brazil, Ind., attended Eastern Illinois Teachers' college. Lieut. Graham Smith, 505 C. C. road, Ahoskie, N.C., attended A. and T. college, where he was an honor student, and Lieut. Herbert Van Allen Clark, 810 E. 17th street, Pine Bluff, Ark., who attended Tuskegee before his enlistment in the Army.

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