roberts and second lieutenant mack ross. one of the key evolutions to getting to this point was in 1941, first lady eleanor roosevelt, at the urgings of her close friend and social activist moved to help expand the pilot training program at tuskegee alabama. in march of that year, eleanor roosevelt not only visited the tuskegee institute's field but incredibly and against the advice of her secret service detail, she asked the chief flight instructor, charles a. chief anderson, to take her on a flight. this single act of flying the first lady for more than an hour had great symbolic value to the advocates of black military aviation. it brought a visibility to tuskegee's pilot training program. this, in turn, helped open the door for the deployment of black military aviation units to the european theater. unfortunately, they still were in segregated units. in a total, there were 2,483 pilot trainee that is entered training in tuskegee, alabama, of which 992 graduated, earning their wings as pilots, from 1942 through 1946. ther

roberts and second lieutenant mack ross. one of the key evolutions to getting to this point was in 1941, first lady eleanor roosevelt, at the urgings of her close friend and social activist moved to help expand the pilot training program at tuskegee, alabama. in march of that year, eleanor roosevelt not only visited the tuskegee institute's field but incredibly and against the advice of her secret service detail, she asked the chief flight instructor, charles a. chief anderson, to take her on a flight. this single act of flying the first lady for more than an hour had great symbolic value to the advocates of black military aviation. it brought a visibility to tuskegee's pilot training program. this in turn, helped open the door for the deployment of black military aviation units to the european theater. unfortunately, they still were in segregated units. in a total there were 2,483 pilot trainee that is entered training in tuskegee, alabama of which 992 graduated earning their wings as pilots, from 1942 through 1946. there w