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The Tuskegee experiment and Tuskegee airmen, 1939-1949 : establishing America's black Air Force for WW II / by Tuskegee Airman Le Roy F. Gillead.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RBC 2027 5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillead, Le Roy F., author, publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American.
- African American air pilots--History.
- African American air pilots.
- Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.).
- Military operations, Aerial--American.
- Military participation--African American.
- Alabama--Tuskegee Army Air Field.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 33 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Le Roy F. Gillead, [1994]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Tuskegee and Tuskegee Institute: Background
- Mobilzation of the Armed Services
- Resistance to the Tuskegee Experiment
- The five phases of the Experiment
- Activities and events of the five phases: 1. Civilian Pilot Training Program ; 2. Primary Flying Training ; 3. Tuskegee Army Air Field ; 4. Fighter pilot organizations ; 5. Bomber pilot organizations
- Demobilzation and absortion
- Selected accomplishments of Tuskegee Airmen
- Epilogue
- Tuskgee Airmen, Inc.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 33).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center RBC 2027 5 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2026 from Things Archival. Inscribed by the author to "Tumani" on 8 February 1996 on verso of title leaf. Bookseller's printed description laid in.
- OCLC:
- 34769514
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