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Oral history interview with Charles W. Dryden

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Dryden, Charles W. (Charles Walter)

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During World War II, Charles W. Dryden was a member of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, U.S. Army Air Corps, known as the Tuskegee Airmen. In this interview, he describes First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's flight with the Tuskegee Airmen, disproving the then-prevalent belief that African Americans were not capable of flying an aircraft.
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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Fighter Pilots
  2. African Americans
  3. Anecdotes
  4. Armed Forces
  5. Discrimination
  6. Discrimination In The Military
  7. Interviews
  8. Officers
  9. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884 1962
  10. United States
  11. United States. Army Air Forces
  12. United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th
  13. Veterans
  14. World War, 1939 1945

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