Training the best
Subtitle: Charles Herbert Flowers, Jr. Tuskegee Airman Flight Instructor
By: Dorothy M. Poole.
Publisher: Robnor Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780977619238
Subjects: Flowers, Charles Herbert, -- 1918-; United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Biography; Tuskegee Institute -- History; Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography; African American air pilots -- Biography; African American air pilots -- History; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American; Flight training -- Alabama -- Tuskegee -- History; Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) -- History
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Charles Herbert Flowers, Jr. Tuskegee Airman Flight Instructor
Description: Charles Flowers was among the first round of cadets to graduate from the training program at Tuskegee and the first African-American, miliary-trained flight instructor hired for the program.  He trained more than ten percent of the 994 pilots who were trained at Tuskegee Army Air Filed.  Mr. Flowers was the first president of the student government association at North Carolina Central Univeristy in Durham, North Carolina and one of a few living Americans to have received the honor of having a high school bear their name, Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, Maryland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111).