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You must learn to crawl before you learn
to walk. You must learn to walk to before you learn to run. And
you must learn to fly a single engine airplane before you can fly the Mighty B-17
Flying Fortress four engined bomber in WWII. This photo was taken at
Minter Field California, Echelon Class 44-A.
This is the Basic Flight Training Squadron
6.
Squadron Commander, Captain Edward P.
Denton.
Flight A. Lt. Woodrow W. Schaeffer,
Flight Commander
Instructors, Lt. Ernest E. Briggs, Lt Enoch H. Fudge, Lt. James G. Henry, Lt.
Herbert O. Sundet.
Flight B. Lt. John R. Fowler, Flight
Commander
Instructors, Lt. Clarence C. Graham, Lt. Edwin H. Gough, Lt. Michael Guy, Lt.
Robert L. Sill.
The plane that they used for
Basic Flight Training was probably the AT-6, SNJ3, or BT-19 which
are all very similar. The AT-6 and SNJ3 were the Army and Navy
Versions with retractable landing gear, where the BT-19 had a fixed
gear that was not retractable.
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