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The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949
The Autobiography of LeRoy A. Battle
Tuskegee Airman, Educator, Jazz Musician
One of the original Freeman Field Mutineers
With the ownership stamp of
WII Tuskegee Airman, Harry A. Sheppard
Annapolis Maryland, Annapolis Publishing
Company; 1995 First Edition; softcover, trade paperback (not issued in
hardcover), octavo approx 9" x 6"; 198 pages. Illustrated with
photographs; reproductions of documents, etc.
LeRoy A. Battle was a young man in the
mid-1940s who had just completed flight training and earned his wings as
one of the distinguished Tuskegee Airmen. He was about to be shipped to
the European Theatre ...when the war ended. However, just prior, he and
his fellow colored members of the 477th Bombardment Group were
transferred to Freeman Field in Seymour, Indiana for Advanced
Combat Training. It was there that Lieutenant LeRoy A. Battle was one of
nineteen colored men who first entered the Officers Club on April 5th
1945, and who were subsequently arrested in the famous Freeman Field
Mutiny. (Gotta buy the book to read the rest of the story). LeRoy
Battle went on to become a lifelong educator, teacher, jazz musician and
band leader. |