- Collection:
- Darr Aero Tech Flying School (Albany, Georgia) Collection
- Title:
- Royal Air Force Arnoldian Reunion
- Creator:
- Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
Kaplan, Philip (Philip I.)
Smith, Rex Alan - Contributor to Resource:
- Dougherty County Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1996-09-18/1996-09-23
- Subject:
- Darr Aero Tech School (Albany, Ga.)
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950--Military leadership
United States. Army. Air Service
United States. Army. Air Corps
United States. Department of the Air Force
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Allied Forces--Organization
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British
Soldiers--United States--Training of
United States--History, Military
United States--Armed Forces--Organization
Air pilots
Combined operations (Military science)--History
United States--Foreign relations
Great Britain--Foreign relations
Military education
Scrapbooks
Food habits
Fish as food
Seafood
Quail shooting
Presidents--United States
Presidents' spouses--United States
Turner Field (Albany, Ga.)
Federated Garden Club of Albany (Albany, Ga.) - People:
- Darr, Hal, 1893-1955
Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024
Carter, Rosalynn - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Plains, 32.03405, -84.39269 - Medium:
- clip binders
directories
booklets - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- A 17-page program of events for a Royal Air Force Arnoldian Reunion held September 18-23, 1996. The reunion was planned for British Royal Air Force (RAF) attendees, all veterans from World War II. The event began with a presentation by Gordon Wheeler, the former Commandant of Cadets at Darr Aero Tech. The program lists numerous events that were planned for the RAF veterans. It includes memorial services, tree plantings, recitals, Southern foodways (fish fries, quail hunting), local day trips to meet President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter in Plains, Georgia; meetings with Albany city officials; the Chehaw Wild Animal Park, the former site of Darr Aero Tech at Albany Airport, Radium Springs (a favorite weekend leave spot for RAF cadets during the war), and a farewell at the Federated Garden Club of Albany. The Darr Aero Tech Flying School, founded by Hal Darr, was based on the "Arnold" or "Arnoldian" scheme, a three-phase World War II training plan with primary, basic, and advanced phases, established by U.S. General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold. This school and scheme trained thousands of British pilots in the Southeastern United States, when they could not train at home due to military threats around Great Britain. Courses were run by civilian United States Army Air Corp (AARC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) instructors on single and multi-engine planes; each training center was assigned RAF administrators to handle the discipline and pay for British trainees.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgn_darr-aerotech_binder-03
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgn_darr-aerotech_binder-03#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgn_darr-aerotech_binder-03/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- zgn_darr
- Extent:
- 8.5 in. x 5 in.; 17 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Dougherty County Public Library
- Rights:
-
