Southeast Air Corps Training Center News from Montgomery, Alabama • 11

Satirday, July 19, 1941 SOUTHEAST AIR CORPS TRAINING CENTER NEWS ELEVEN 4 11 ve 1 Saturday, July 19, 1941 SOUTHEAST AIR CORPS TRAINING CENTER NEWS ELEVEN i I I I 1 FORMER DIVING CHAMPION EARNING WINGS AT GUNTER BASIC SCHOOL I Irl TICILF 'EN 71 Irkiirrikrel 1-11nr A ISDTANT Selma Baseball Team 111.4 -ILO 6.4 160 la 41.4. A A Iho gi.AL a .11. i A former Olympic diving star and aquacade has taken on ings as a member of class 41-H at Gunter Field. That's right. Marshall Wayne of Miami, who is getting in his basic flying training, is holder of the 1936 Olympic championship diving title.

He was national A. A. U. diving champion in 1934, 1935 and 1936. Turning professional after participating in the 1936 Olympics, Wayne appeared in Billy Rose's traveling aquatic show and was a star performer for Rose at the New York world's fair in 1939 and at the San Francisco fair in 1940.

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4:,:. 'X' ittP :41 '14 3 4 1 z11 e- 4 ,..7.: 'C'''' 2 :1.4 'i- 0::: Simple Ceremony. For 38 At Selma In a simple but impressive ceremony, thirty-eight, Flying Cadets of Class SE-41-E received' their wings and diplomas July 11 at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Selma, Ala. The exercises were held at 10:30 a. m.

in the Post Theater. The invocation by the Post Chaplain, Lt. James E. Stockman, was followed by a short address by Colonel V. B.

Dixon, Commanding Officer of the School, who congratulated the cadets and extended welcome to the parents and friends present at the exercises. Major Philip A. Roll, Executive Officer, delivered the main address in which he compared the Air Corps to one big team and charged the graduates to uphold their end of the job so as to insure the success and highest efficiency of' the unit as a whole. Then' followed the presentation of the wings by Colonel Dixon and the diplomas by Major Roll. Following the benediction' by the Post Chaplain, the entire assembly joined in''singing the National Anthem.

A Under Secretary of War Visits Training Center The Training Center had a distinguished visitor in the person of Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, when the official and his party 'stopped hero en route to Dallas, July 3. Greeting them were Brigadier General Walter R. Weaver, commander of S. E.

A. C. T. aild Colonel Albert IL Sneed, commanding officer of Maxwell Field, and their staffs. Secretary Patterson was accompanied by Congressman H.

W. Sumner of Texas and five others attached to the office. Their plane, a C-39 transport, piloted by Captain H. Harris, stopped here to refuel on its way from Washington, D. to Dallas, where Secretary Patterson was to speak before a meeting of the Texas State association.

Among those in the party were Lieutenant Colonel R. W. Magee, Air Corps; Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Snow, Signal Corps; Lieutenant Colonel A.

R. Ginsburgh, and Captain L. F. Hill, Field Artillery; B. Lada Macorski; Co-pilot Major J.

P. Kirkendall and a4 crew of several enlisted men. AV ILO -T 1 SUGGESTION Members of the Armored Force on maneuvers for the first time would do well to provide themselves with a large road map. This will tell them everything they want to know, except how to roll it up again. Though getting off to a late start and being handicapped for while the lack of a baseball diamond, the 57th Air Base Squadron team at Selma, is still batting a 1000 with two wins and no losses to date.

First Sergeant Anglin is the player-manager of the team. 0 0 9 1 0 First Class of Colored Aviation Cadets Begins Pilot Training at Tus egee The ten men constitute the first Ten young colored men who class in this project. Although the have qualified as aviation cadets quota of pilots for the squadron is in the United States Army began 'about 33, a total of about 100 col-training at Tuskegee Institute, ored aviation cadets will be trainTuskegee, today as pilots for ed annually. This is necessary be-the 99th Pursuit Squadron, first cause experience has shown that tactical unit in The Army Air Ilorces composed of colored sol- about 50 per cent of all pilot candiers, the War Department an- didates normally fail to complete flounced today. the training course successfully.

ed at Tuskegee as an assistant project officer, also is expected to be included in the first class. Like all men accepted as aviation cadets by the Air Corps, the ten men have had 2 years' college education or have shown in tests they have the equivalent. They have also met the rigorous physical requirements of the Air Corps. These aviation cadets will receive five weeks of pre-flight training, including basic military instruction and mathematics. Then, on August 23rd, they will begin their 10-week course of primary training.

These fifteen weeks of instruction will be conducted at Tuskekee Institute, which has been awarded an $80,000 contract for this purpose. When this phase of the training is completed the men will take a 10-week course in basic and a 10- week course in advanced training in a school operated by the Army Air Corps, at Chehaw, 4 miles from Tuskegee. One of the aviation cadets is an enlisted man in the Army. He is Private Charles Dudley Brown, Headquarters Battery, 100th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Camp Davis, North Carolina. The other nine cadets who qualified from civilian life ate: Lemuel Rodney Custis, 67 Pliny Hartford, Conn.

Frederick Henry Moore, Box 666 Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. John Corrie Anderson, 669 Indiana Avenue, Toledo, O. Charles Henry Del3ow, 2843 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis, Ind. George Spencer Roberts, -West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia. William Arthur Buckner, 524 Willow Port Huron, Mich.

Theodore Edward Brown, 1819 Ashland Evanston, Roderick Charles Williams, 3556 South Parkway, Chicago, Ulysses S. Pannell, Reagan, Tex. Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Infantry, U. S.

Army, now station When this first class of aviation cadets begins its primary training on August 23rd, a second class will begin its pre-flight training-By October 4 three classes will be in session and that number will be maintained. continuously. Meanwhile favorable progress reports have been received from Tuskegee Institute and from Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, where another part of the training project for the 99th Pursuit Squadron is being carried on. At Tuskegee an air base is being constructed for the squadron by a colored architect and a colored construction concern. The architect is Hi lyard R.

Robinson, of Washington, D. while' the building operations are in the hands of McKissick and McKissick of Nashville, Tennessee. The total estimated cost of the work is $1,480,295. At Chanute Field in an Air Corps Technical School a total of 271 colored enlisted men are in training as the ground crews for the 99th Pursuit Squadron. With 7 more men to be entered there in the near future, a total of 278 men, the full ground complement of the squadron, will be getting technical training.

'When these men have completed their training they will be transferred to man the squadron's facilities at Tuskegee on or about October 1. Meanwhile it is reported that these men have taken on a soldierly bearing and deportment and are making excellent progress in their highly specialized training. They also engage keenly in inter-detachment athletic competition. On June 18 they held a field track meet. eA.litct 9i'e Id k' 4 111.

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