Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 67

I i m.n-iirn., -in. mr I Ml -l r. if i T0 YOIJH J. (22 SUNDAY GRAPHIC "jnT program I s.midve. 254 I Fit Photos by '-'Tiim Smumn Mort -w iUK (GW 05Wb faff iiijflElfej elJuSAX 7 1 Mil'ri) IJV TI1K III ii: TIL of his Mitchell bomber.

St. John W. Christine, enyine-r. St. Christine is nursemaid to the fourteen-ton Riant while in flight.

In 1 of Pittsburgh, stands with -chute pack in hand at Self ridge Field here. As aerial combat, he will double as a gunner in the six-man crew. N-- 1 fiJkX wis 1 mP 1 i -i 'If READY I OR iT.KillT, 2nd Lt. Vincent J. Mason, of the 553rd Fighter Squadron, walks out to his ship.

Like all Negro pilots, the flier from Orange, N. is a graduate of Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. Pursuit' pilots 'come directly to Selfridge. bomber pilots lake at least 105 hours additional transitional training at 'Mather Field, Calif. 2ND r.

Jerome D. Spurlin, from Chicago, of the 616th Squadron, just in from a training flight, leans out of his cabin window to talk with Staff Sgt. Wesley V. Holeher, from Philadelphia, of the 821st. In accordance with a recent directive on Army planes to be used in the United States, camouflage has been removed from the gleaming B-25 to make it faster.

IJKFOK1-: HKINti FI on the flight line, every plane arriving at Selfridge to be used by the -177th Bombardment droup is completely checked by Negro members of the 61 fit Squadron, under the supervision of the white 821st Squadron. Pvt. James H. Wilson, of the 616ih; Sgt. Joseph Cancelosi, the SL'lst.

and Pfc. Kngene C. Roberts, of the 61Rth. work on the engine. 1711 If i II '00- I pfr i -V i'rii i i 1 -1 n'ni'- i missal CAN UK STAND high altitudes? Every pilot arriving at Selfridge "goes up" to 3S.000 feet in the low-pressure chamber.

Here are 1st Lt. John D. Thomson and 2nd Lt. Karl E. Goellner.

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE THFV'VF BFFN IN T11F THICK OF IT. Combat pursuit pilots of the 99th Fighter Squadron. 1st Lt. Herbert' V. Clark Ueft.

of Pine Bluff. 1st Lt. William A. Campbell, of Tuskegee. and 1st Lt.

Spann Watson. Hackensack. N. completed their quota of missions in the African campaigft and have returned to along with white pilots, the training of members of the 553rd Squadron. WITH DOOR CLOSKI) and hood of the Link trainer down, Flight Officer Saint M.

Twine, of the 447th Bombardment Group, "fly" coast to coast on the radio beam, make instrurcent approaches and landings..