WWII - 1945, USAAF Training Film: Wings For This Man

Titles. 15:07:13 Motor starts up & fighter planes take off; formation overhead; above clouds; German bombers & fighters. Gun camera of hits. Patrol plane landing. 15:08:32 SOF “Yesterday I fulfilled one of my ambitions as a combat pilot...” Another describes how he got a kill. 15:08:58 Montage: Black pilots in classroom, working in shipyard, main street, recruits, boarding train. trains in superimposed montage. Church exterior. George Washington Carver over door of college. Farm equipment class, Science lab; metal shop; statue of Booker T. Washington & inscription on base 1856-1915 “He lifted...” Students walking across campus, drafting class, excavating w/ large shovel, building airfield. 15:10:36 Fighter planes overhead; hangers, barracks, fighter planes on airstrip. Black cadets in parachutes, into planes & taking off. CU of black pilot in cockpit. Sitting in classroom, listening, studying engine, working on motor. Biplane w/ instructor; trainer flying w/ instructor. CU flying over map. 15:12:16 Calisthenics & balance training. Plane in clouds, Classroom, navigation, radio code instruction w/ headsets & telegraph key. Aerial of fighters in formation. 15:13:15 Bombers on flight line; Jeep w/ blacks to planes; talking. Graduation ceremony & wings pinned on. P-40s take off; P-47 Thunderbolts; P-51 Mustangs; 15:14:24 Gun camera of strafing & hitting plane on ground. Plane into ground. Cemetery w/ crosses & headstones. Troops marching in close order drill past airplanes. Major General Butlers SOF speaking on 3rd anniversary. Saluting graduating AAF, people watching. Marching. The End. WWII Anti-Racism; Segregation; Ethnic; African-Americans; Negroes; WW2 Propaganda; 1945; 1940s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.