Description

Eagle Field — Class 43-B, “Eagle’s Brood”
Army Air Forces Primary Flying School • World War II •
44 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
Edited by Gerald Hasler and Alvin Lowe, with art direction by Norman Thomson and Lloyd L. Funk, this is the class yearbook of Class 43-B, “Eagle’s Brood,” at Eagle Field, the primary flying school operated near Dos Palos, California. It covers the cadets’ arrival, their instructors and post officers, the class history of learning to fly, and each training flight group along with graduation committees. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime class book.

Training: Primary flight instruction under the Army Air Forces West Coast Training Command, culminating in graduation of Class 43-B in 1943.

Commanders: Captain Richard L. Ault, Commanding Officer; Lt. Vernon A. Smith, Commandant of Cadets; Mr. Harry S. White, President of Corporation; Captain William A. Hoy, Engineering Officer; 1st Lt. Martin N. Osborn, Post Adjutant.

Field publication: unknown

Table of Contents
Foreword
Editorial
Post Officers
Instructors
Class History
Cadet Officers
Flight One
Flight Two
Flight Three
Flight Four
Flight Five
Flight Six
Flight Seven
Hangar Flying
Graduation Committees

“But there’s a smile hid back in his eye that means a note home, ‘Dad… I can fly!'”
— “Whiffle-bird” Reimer, the Rhymer