New Vistas -- Tuskegee Airmen NHS, Tuskegee AL
N 32° 27.393 W 085° 40.842
16S E 623998 N 3591808
A sign of history overlooking Moton Field on the Tuskegee Airmen NHS, Tuskegee AL
Waymark Code: WMWHJF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2017
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This sign of history is located in the visitor overlook at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee AL. It reads:
"NEW VISTAS
The field was built by Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, in 1941 after the school contracted with the US Army to provide primary flight training for the nation's first African-American military pilots. By the end of World War II almost thousand African-Americans had earned their wings and their supply training began here. Thousands of military and civilian support personnel helped them reach their goal.
"My eyes were opened to new vistas I mean, I just didn't imagine that icon a as a black person at that time, would have this opportunity." George Abercrombie, 2001"
Group that erected the marker: National Park Service
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Moton Field
Tuskegee, AL
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