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GOODWILL, from 3
Tuskegee Airmen at Nellis you get what you are asking.” Indeed, Truman chives holds the Papers of Dale L. White Sr., at
The National Air and Space Museum Ar-
did help pass legislation allowing African Ameri-
In 1949, teams of the Tuskegee Airmen The trophy for cans to participate in the Civilian Pilot Training the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly,
from the 332nd Fighter Group participated in the gunnery Program. In 1948, President Truman integrated Va. In addition to White’s flight logs, he saved
a U.S. Air Force gunnery meet at the Nevada meet competition the armed services by presidential order. a scrapbook about the African American avia-
Test and Training Range. went missing White and Spencer returned to Chicago in a tion community in Chicago, especially John C.
for 55 years.
Although hosted by Las Vegas Army Air Resulting from roundabout way. They stopped by Spencer’s Robinson, “The Brown Condor of Ethiopia.”
Field (now Nellis Air Force Base), the Indian the research hometown of Lynchburg, Va. They then made a White also kept his payment books, weather
Springs Sub-Base (now Creech Air Force of Zellie Orr, it special pass over Sherwood, Ohio, to salute their forecast maps, and coursework notes from
Base) also served as a staging area for por- was found in the new friends, the Millers. And they returned to studies at Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Univer-
tions of the contest. A team from the 332nd storage area Chicago as heroes. sity. Chauncey Spencer’s flight suit, goggles,
won the propeller-driven competition. at the National On May 30, White was chosen to drop a helmet, and scarf are on display in the Barron
Their names are on the gunnery meet’s Museum of the wreath on the grave of aviator Bessie Coleman, Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery at the Museum
trophy, which can be found in the National U.S. Air Force at located in Lincoln Cemetery, Chicago. in Washington, D.C.
Wright Patterson
Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Air Force Base, In August of 1939, the
Ohio. CAPA broadened its scope
and was incorporated as the
National Airman’s Associa-
Gunnery
team tion of America. White was
members, elected to be vice president.
shown in In 1940, White became
this 1949 an aircraft mechanic at
photo with Wright-Patterson Field in
their trophy, Dayton, Ohio. Even then,
are left to his race made the applica-
right:Lt.
Halbert tion process difficult as he
Alexander, received conflicting infor-
Lt. James mation about how to apply
Harvey, for and accept positions.
Capt. Alva When the United States en-
Temple and tered World War II, White
Lt. Harry did not join the Tuskegee
Stewart.
Airmen, as he was too old
to apply. He did continue to National Air and Space Museum image
fly until June 1941, when he Dale L. White (center) and Chauncey E. Spencer (second from right)
quit flying at the request of are greeted by National Airmen’s Association President Cornelius
his wife. He retired from R. Coffey (second from left) at Harlem Airport, Chicago. Chicago
Wright-Patterson in 1971 businessman James Hill (far left) and author and sociologist Horace
Air Force photographs C. Cayton (far right) also appear.
and died in 1977.

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