Raynors HCA 2017-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017
A large display, 32” x 40,” of Ink signatures of 27 Tuskegee Airmen on individual white 5” x 3” cards, each double matted and placed in rows. In the middle is a 14” x 10” copy photo of the first 12 Tuskegee cadets being reviewed by Major James A. Ellison, 1941. Signers include: Dabney Montgomery, John Leahr, Wendell Freeland, Utha Knox, Charles Lane, Henry Moore, Ed Tillman, Haldane King, James Sheppard, Washington Ross, Vernon Hopson, Eugene Derricotte, Les Williams, Jack Bryant, Charles McGee, Wilfred DeFour, Buford Johnson, Oliver Goodall, Richard Rutledge, John Mulzac, Fred Johnson, Herndon Cummings, Roy Richardson, Claude Platt, William Surcey, Lloyd McKeethen, and Harvey Alexander. In very fine condition. Oversized. All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton Field, the Tuskegee Army Air Field, and were educated at Tuskegee University, located near Tuskegee, Alabama. 450 pilots were sent overseas, 66 were killed in action and 32 were captured.
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