LANDING AFTER HOURS: TUSKEGEE AIRMEN FROM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
LANDING AFTER HOURS: TUSKEGEE AIRMEN FROM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
As the U.S. anticipated entering World War II, it addressed the need for experience pilots by establishing Civil Pilot Training (CPT) programs at universities and airfields. Only a handful of now Historically Black Colleges and Universities, were selected, since no military arm existed at the time for African-Americans in aviation. Lincoln University was the only …