Training the Tuskegee Airmen

Training the Tuskegee Airmen (HMT59)

Location: Walterboro, SC 29488 Colleton County
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Country: United States of America
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N 32° 56.376', W 80° 38.162'

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(Front text)
Graduates of the Tuskegee Army Flying School, who belonged to the first African-American units in the U.S. Army Air Corps, took further combat flight training at Walterboro Army Air Field from May 1944 to October 1945. Many of the first "Tuskegee Airmen" had already won distinction and fame in missions over North Africa, Sicily, and Italy in 1943-44, and several of them were assigned here as combat flight instructors.
(Reverse text)
Trainees here flew the P-39, P-47, and P-40 fighter planes and the B-25 bomber. The officers' quarters and enlisted men's barracks stood just east and just west of this spot, respectively. Segregation on American military posts, in place until 1948, was made worse by the fact that German POWs held here could use "White" facilities but the "Colored" officers and men of the U.S. Army Air Corps could not.
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HM NumberHMT59
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Marker Number15-21
Year Placed2011
Placed ByThe Hiram E. Mann Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, September 14th, 2014 at 10:46pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 534023 N 3644649
Decimal Degrees32.93960000, -80.63603333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 56.376', W 80° 38.162'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 56' 22.56" N, 80° 38' 9.72" W
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Area Code(s)803, 843
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2931-2999 Tuskegee Airmen Drive, Walterboro SC 29488, US
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