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Included are images of the 99th Fighter
Squadron, Tuskegee Airmen, the arrival of the
first African-American troops in Africa, troops
in training, etc.
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(MILITARY—WORLD WAR
TWO.) TUSKEGEE AIRMEN.
Grad-
uation Exercise 45E (cover title).
Large
4to leaf of mimeographed, brown paper,
folded to form four pages, printed on all
sides; tiny chip from the bottom right cor-
ner of the first page.
Tuskegee, AL, 1945
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This program was for the Tuskegee Pilot
School graduates of 1945. A list of their names
appears on the verso of the first page, the pro-
gram of the exercise to the right. The invocation
was delivered by Chaplain (Captain) Gerald
L. Hayden, the address by Attorney Arthur
Shores, Special Counsel to the NAACP; the
presentation of the letters of appointment were
presented by Colonel Noel F. Parrish. In over
twenty years, this is the first time we have seen
anything like this.