You Can Fly

You Can Fly
About this book
I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.
So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you’ve longed for is here: you are flying!
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL17335929W
Subjects
African American Historymilitary historyflyingBlack Historyjuvenile non-fictionpilotsjuvenile literatureAfrican American air pilotsCampaignsAfrican American ParticipationAmerican Aerial operationsWorld War, 1939-1945Juvenile poetryUnited States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99thUnited StatesHistoryAfrican americans, poetryChildren's poetry