Tuskegee Airmen,African American Fighter Pilots,World War,WWII,Escape Kits,1945

Title: [Black fighter pilot series: 'Escape kits' (cyanide) being distributed to fighter pilots at air base in southern Italy, 1945]
Creator(s): Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1945 March]
Summary: Photo shows (seated): Theodore G. Lumpkin, Jr. Standing (left to right): Joseph L. 'Joe' Chineworth, Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Robert C. Robinson, Asheville, NC, Class 44-G; Driskell B. Ponder, Chicago, IL, Class 43-I; Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, Class 44-E. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Photographer's notes and Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)
Notes:
Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2000-2001.
Corresponding film negative: LC-F9-02-4503-325, no. 7
Subjects:
United States.--Army Air Forces.--Fighter Group, 332nd--People--1940-1950.
African Americans--Military service--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Italy.
Fighter pilots--American--Italy--1940-1950.
Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950.
Bookmark /00649764/
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