- Collection:
- Darr Aero Tech Flying School (Albany, Georgia) Collection
- Title:
- Darr Aero Tech Scrapbook #2
- Creator:
- Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dougherty County Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1944
- 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
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female
Women in aeronautics
African Americans--Segregation
Combined operations (Military science)--History
United States--Foreign relations
Great Britain--Foreign relations
Military education
Scrapbooks
Turner Field (Albany, Ga.)
Airplanes--Dispatching
Medical care
Cessna aircraft
Spartan (Transport plane)
Canteens (Establishments)
Armies--Commissariat - People:
- Darr, Hal, 1893-1955
Wheeler, Gordon Boyce, 1919-2007
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 - 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, Dougherty County, Radium Springs, 31.52629, -84.13546 - Medium:
- clip binders
scrapbooks - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Three-ring scrapbook binder with 89 pages that document the (Great Britain) Royal Air Force Arnold Scheme Register at Darr Aero Tech School in Albany, Georgia. Throughout the binder, black-and-white photos have been pasted throughout with hand-written annotations that identify the people, places, and activities of the time. There are candid, professional, and aerial photos of the Darr facilities, British Royal Air Force (RAF) trainees, favorite local vacation sites (Radium Springs), trainees receiving medical care, wives, girlfriends, facilities on the base (mess halls, barracks), parades, flight line formations, recreation and exercise ("Pilot's Club," shooting pool, slot machines, parties), and aircraft (a Cessna AT-17 and a Spartan transport plane). Female flight dispatchers are shown on page 48, and female mess hall staff are on page 52. Segregation in the United States Armed Forces was official national policy until 1948, and in the American South until 1964, and thus, all people in military and clerical support services shown in the scrapbook are white. An African American man named "Willie" (no last name given) is shown pushing a wheelbarrow on page 30. 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_scrapbook-02
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgn_darr-aerotech_scrapbook-02#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgn_darr-aerotech_scrapbook-02/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 58 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Dougherty County Public Library
- Rights:
-
