Case 13
Container
Call Number: KC AV 26
Contains 1 Result:
Mrs. Barbara (Merrill) Ross interview, June 14, 2011
Item — Case: 13
Scope and Contents
The only son of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ross from Flat Lick and Pineville, Kentucky, Mr. Ross moved to Topeka, Kansas to accept a teaching position in the public schools when he received his call to serve in the summer of 1944. Having already earned a pilot’s license from a civilian pilot training program at Pittsburg State University, Mr. Ross successfully pursued entrance into the Tuskegee Pilot Training program. But just as he was being prepared to be sent overseas the war ended. Due to...
Dates:
June 14, 2011