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The following pages link to High Calling: Alabama's Aviation Legacy (Q15678):
View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- In addition to that it was a think tank. (0.8951) (Q15387) (← links)
- Most of the theory that ultimately was translated into strategy by the Army Air Forces in World War Two had its origin here at Max. (0.8544) (Q15388) (← links)
- Most of the senior officers in the Army Air Forces. (0.8544) (Q15389) (← links)
- We're trained here at maximum. (0.7472) (Q15390) (← links)
- One such officer was the famous Claire Chennault (0.8365) (Q15391) (← links)
- a major at Maxwell in the 1930s. (0.8365) (Q15392) (← links)
- He created the world's first close formation aerial demonstration team. (0.8365) (Q15393) (← links)
- A forerunner to today's Thunderbirds (0.7793) (Q15394) (← links)
- they were called three men on a flying trapeze. (0.7793) (Q15395) (← links)
- They were flying Pete Wells with open cockpits and doing some things at that time that you see the Thunderbirds do today. (0.8141) (Q15396) (← links)
- You probably heard their song. (0.8141) (Q15397) (← links)
- They float through the air with the greatest of ease. (0.8141) (Q15398) (← links)
- Well that's written about the three men on the flying trapeze that was formed right here at Maxwell Air Force Base. (0.8141) (Q15399) (← links)
- But Chenaults accomplishments didn't stop with aerial acrobatics. (0.8141) (Q15400) (← links)
- He and his fellow officers were developing crucial air war strategy that would shape the Allied attack. (0.8141) (Q15401) (← links)
- In the Second World War. (0.9321) (Q15402) (← links)
- One of the things was that was developed here at the Airport Tactical School as the industrial fiber theory of bombing (0.8093) (Q15403) (← links)
- along with the idea of high altitude daylight precision bombing (0.8093) (Q15404) (← links)
- which was a source of controversy here at the tax cool guys like Claire Chennault maintained that pursuit air planes were still needed to escort bombers deep into enemy territories. (0.8093) (Q15405) (← links)
- The bomber boys maintained that bombers could fly high enough and fast enough and were armed sufficiently enough. (0.8093) (Q15406) (← links)
- To fight off any attacking pursuit from enemy aircraft and it turned out that Shinault was right and we later in the war went to pursuit (0.8359) (Q15407) (← links)
- escorting bombers into Germany and two other theaters of operation. (0.8359) (Q15408) (← links)
- By the early stages of World War Two (0.8359) (Q15409) (← links)
- the tactical school had been replaced with a flight training center at Maxwell and her sister base Gunner Army Airfield. (0.8359) (Q15410) (← links)
- With that operation in full swing (0.8185) (Q15411) (← links)
- Montgomery became the starting point for many of would be World War Two. (0.8185) (Q15412) (← links)
- Ace Maxwell was the headquarters for all operational training to the east of the 42nd parallel in the United States. (0.8185) (Q15413) (← links)
- By operational training we're talking about the training of pilots (0.8185) (Q15414) (← links)
- navigators bombardiers Gunners and other flight engineers. (0.8185) (Q15415) (← links)
- They were among the cream of the crop. (0.8185) (Q15416) (← links)
- Physically and mentally of young American manhood. (0.7401) (Q15417) (← links)
- And there were thousands of them here. (0.7401) (Q15418) (← links)
- So many. In fact the disguise about Montgomery were said to be the busiest in the world. (0.8658) (Q15419) (← links)
- A new class of basic air cadets shipped out every 10 weeks (0.8507) (Q15420) (← links)
- more than 10000 all totaled and such with the urgency of the times that while one class graduated another would be taking off overhead. (0.8507) (Q15421) (← links)
- To be a fighter to fly B 20 fours over Europe. (0.8123) (Q15422) (← links)
- Or B20 nines in the Pacific? (0.8638) (Q15423) (← links)
- Every available pilot was needed to fill his role (0.8638) (Q15424) (← links)
- so while in Montgomery they trained to the thousands just a few miles away (0.8638) (Q15425) (← links)
- the army decided to try an experiment to see if another group of men would have what it takes to fly into fight. (0.8638) (Q15426) (← links)
- Transitional segment 3 (Q15427) (← links)
- Deep inside Alabama is a famous school called the Tuskegee Institute. (0.8554) (Q15428) (← links)
- And its founder Booker T. (0.8284) (Q15429) (← links)
- Washington was a pioneer who broke open a road for others to follow. (0.8284) (Q15430) (← links)
- This man had a dream and the dream became stone. (0.8549) (Q15431) (← links)
- He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry. (0.8549) (Q15432) (← links)
- Close to this school close to the work this man had done. (0.8633) (Q15433) (← links)
- the United States government determined to build an airfield. (0.8633) (Q15434) (← links)
- I don't think that any of us could have known what the impact was going to be in the future (0.8693) (Q15435) (← links)
- but we do know we do. (0.8693) (Q15436) (← links)