Jakeman Robert J Herbert E Carter 1919 2012 (1 results)

SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR PLUS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY A MEMBER OF THE 99th PURSUIT SQUADRON TUSKEGEE AIRMAN. Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). xiv, 417 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Blue dust jacket lightly rubbed with usual color fading to spine panel. Blue cloth boards with bold white stamped lettering upon spine. Front free endpaper features four-line ink inscription at top left "To. Dr Moore | Best Wishes | Herbert E. Carter | 99th Ft. Sqd." and with author's two-line inscription near center "2/25/96 | Jeff Jakeman." Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With Preface, b/w photographs and illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Features thirteen chapters titled as: "Aviation and Tuskegee Institute: The Early Years;" "Black Americans and the Military;" "The Black Public Becomes Air-minded;" "Civil Rights Emerges as a National Issue;" "The Aviation Legislation of 1939;" "The Civilian Pilot Training Program at Tuskegee;" "Tuskegee Emerges as the Center of Black Aviation;" "The Campaign for Air Corps Participation Broadens;" "Fruits of the Campaign: The Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron;" The Reaction to the Ninety-ninth;" "Military Flight Training Begins;" "Making the Dream a Reality: The Air Corps' First Black Pilots;" and "Conclusion." U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Herbert E. Carter (1919-2012) was one of the thirty-three original members of the Tuskegee Airmen and flew seventy-seven missions during World War II. ISBN 0817305270.…