aviation would complement schools traditional emphasis on task oriented vocational education.
             In July 19, 1941 when it was official that there would be an establish all-black fighter squadron Major General Walter Weaver, commander of the U.S. Army's southeastern Air corps spoke at the Tuskegee Institute campus. It would be then that 13 black men would become the first black pilot trainees. Most of the trainees were college graduates and it included a policeman, an army officer, a factory inspector, and several young men fresh out of college. The men of this first squadron were so smart that they established a grade point average never equaled before or even after training. A few miles from the Tuskegee Campus, two airfields would be
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