6/23/2023 0 Comments The last cadet cartoon 1943This would be a folder that contains the military orders applicable to them, as well as certifications and flight time records. They were usually required to file these papers at their county courthouse. If you don’t have discharge paperwork from the veteran’s estate, check the county where they resided when they were discharged. This form lists all training classes and base locations. If you are really lucky, you’ll have the veteran’s Separation Qualification Record. You may also have a Certificate of Service, which lists dates, bases assigned, military occupational specialties, and citations earned. This may also list bases at which they were stationed. On the back of that document is the Enlisted Record and Report of Separation which gives the date of induction or enlistment and a brief military career summary. Hopefully you will have the veteran’s discharge certificate. To find your parent, grandparent, or relative in a class book, you need to know approximately when they trained and where they were stationed. That would now be a monumental undertaking, but I may do so in the coming years. At one time I wanted to index the names and hometowns of those pictured in the class books. Unfortunately I do not have additional information or records about individual cadets or instructors beyond what you see in the class books. For example pilots underwent pre-flight, then Primary Flight, then Basic Flight, and then Advanced Flight classes, all at separate Air Fields. Once a class graduated, cadets were generally stationed at another Army Air Field to begin their next class. Thus at a particular facility, there may have been dozens of class books produced during a given year. Separate classes sometimes overlapped their training at the same base. Classes lasted anywhere from four to ten, or even twenty, weeks. These are like high school year books, except they were produced for a training class at a particular Army Air Field or other training facility. The collection does have hundreds of training class books. I’m often asked if the AAF Collection has information on a specific person.
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