What does AAFld stand for?

From 1942 through 1946, 992 Black pilots graduated from Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama.

During the first phase of implementation, in November 2008, regional databases at Fort Eustis, Virginia; Wheeler Army Air Field, Hawaii; and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, migrated into the GATES central site at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

He was one of the hundreds of African-American pilots who trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and went on to fight bravely for the U.

DiFante verified that Captain Quy's PT-13 Stearman was assigned to the Tuskegee Army Air Field, located at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Both Hardesty and Broadnax recognize Colonel Noel E Parrish, the white commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field, for his part in making the "Tuskegee experiment" a success.

Nearly 1,000 pilots were trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field before it closed in 1946.

Nearly 1,000 pilots were trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field before it closed in 1946.

Chronicling her WW II service from her training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia to her assignment at an army air field in Florida to surviving buzz bomb and V-2 rocket attacks in London and witnessing the devastation of Paris a scant two weeks after the city's liberation, An Army in Skirts is the candid testimony of a woman's perspective--thoughtfully discussing the connections Brown made with individual people and the simple day-to-day matters of survival as well as larger issues of war and peace.