(MILITARY WORLD WAR TWO) Certificate issued in camp to a Tu

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(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Certificate issued in camp to a Tuskegee Airman. Partly printed document, 8 x 10 1/2 inches, signed by two officers; minor soiling and wear. Tuskegee, AL, 18 May 1945

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This athletic certificate was issued at the Tuskegee Army Air Field to an airman for "outstanding ability in track and field." It was signed by the commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, Col. Noel F. Parrish, and its African-American flight trainer Lt. Eldridge F. Williams. The recipient was Frederick D. Smith (1917-2001), a native of Kansas who attended the University of Iowa, but dropped out to work in a stockyard, where he learned to pilot an airplane. He was a Tuskegee Airman during World War Two, then got his law degree and became San Francisco's first African-American public defender in 1961.