U.S. Plans For Negro Flying Units
Negro aviation units will be established, in the programme of army expansion, as soon as trained personnel can be obtained, it was said at the American War Department recently. Training of flying personnel already is under way, with the assistance of the Civil Aeronautics Board, using Government equipment. Negro pilots now are training at the Glenville Flying School in Chicago.
The National Youth Administration also is training mechanics and other ground crew personnel. The decision is to establish negro aviation units as part of a recently announced policy providing for negro officers and enlisted men in proportion to their fraction of the country’s population—about 9 per cent. Negro reserve officers will be assigned to coloured units officered by negroes, and when officer candidate schools are opened negroes will be admitted to them.
Regular army units now officered by whites will receive no negro officers, however, except medical officers and chaplains. “
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Northern Advocate, 14 January 1941, Page 8
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