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Darr Aero Tech Flying School papers, Albany, Georgia
Materials from the Darr Aerotech Flight School in Albany, Georgia, where British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots received technical training during World War II.
More About This Collection
Creator
Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
Pryse, Henry M. (Henry McIntosh), 1912-2002
Date of Original
1941/1945
Subject
African Americans--Segregation
Air pilots
Airplanes--Dispatching
Allied Forces--Organization
Anniversaries
Armed Forces--Uniforms
Armies--Commissariat
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950--Military leadership
Biscuits
Canteens (Establishments)
Cemeteries
Cessna aircraft
Combined operations (Military science)--History
Darr Aero Tech School (Albany, Ga.)
Federated Garden Club of Albany (Albany, Ga.)
Fish as food
Food habits
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Great Britain--Foreign relations
Historical markers
Iced tea
Medical care
Memorial service programs
Military education
Mitchell (Bomber)
Presidents' spouses--United States
Presidents--United States
Quail shooting
Scrapbooks
Seafood
Segregation
Soldiers--United States--Training of
Spartan (Transport plane)
Tea
Turner Field (Albany, Ga.)
United States. Army. Air Corps
United States. Army. Air Service
United States. Department of the Air Force
United States--Armed Forces--Organization
United States--Foreign relations
United States--History, Military
United States--History--World War, 1939-1945
Women air pilots
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Women in aeronautics
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (U.S.)
Women's Flying Training Detachment (U.S.)
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female
World War, 1939-1945--United States
People
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950
Burt, Walter H. (Walter Holton), Jr., 1920-1995
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024
Carter, Rosalynn
Darr, Hal, 1893-1955
Dressler, Elizabeth Virginia Chadwick, 1919-1998
Eppstein, Dorothy Jean Dodd, 1918-2010
Hansen, Helen Marie Skjersaa, 1921-2008
Henry, Grace
Kaplan, Philip (Philip I.)
Kirkland, Betty E., 1923-
Nathan, Doris B. (Doris Burmester), 1916-2013
Pryse, Henry M. (Henry McIntosh), 1912-2002
Smith, Rex Alan
Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
Location
Great Britain, 54.75844, -2.69531
United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, 31.53337, -84.21625
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Radium Springs, 31.52629, -84.13546
United States, Mississippi, Washington County, Greenville, 33.40898, -91.05978
United States, New York, Orange County, Newburgh, 41.50343, -74.01042
Medium
black-and-white photographs
booklets
clip binders
directories
historical markers
memorandums
photographs
programs (documents)
registers (lists)
rosters
scrapbooks
Type
Text
Description
Materials from the Darr Aerotech Flight School in Albany, Georgia, where British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots received technical training during World War II. Many of these British air pilots eventually fought in the Battle of Britain. Women also worked at Turner Field during the Darr Aero Tech program; those recorded in this collection participated actively during World War II, performing engineering and/or administrative roles. Pilots became students of the Arnold Scheme, designed by US General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, and developed to train RAF pilots at airfields in rural areas of Georgia, Florida and Alabama from 1941-1943. Women are seen throughout the collection working as cafeteria staff, dispatchers, parachute packers, inside of group portraits (without roles), and as wives or girlfriends of male air pilots. If married, women are identified by their husband's names. Because segregation in the United States Armed Forces was official policy until 1948, and in Southern states until 1964, all people in military and clerical support services we see inside this collection are white.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Dougherty County Public Library
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