You Can Fly

Description:

I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying. So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you’ve longed for is here: you are flying!

subjects: African American History,  military history,  flying,  Black History,  juvenile non-fiction,  pilots,  juvenile literature,  African American air pilots,  Campaigns,  African American Participation,  American Aerial operations,  World War, 1939-1945,  Juvenile poetry,  United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th,  United States,  History,  African americans, poetry,  Children's poetry,  Poetry,  Pilotes d'aéronef noirs américains,  Poésie pour la jeunesse,  Histoire,  Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945,  Campagnes et batailles,  JUVENILE FICTION,  Historical,  20th Century,  People & Places,  African American,  Stories in Verse,  Military campaigns,  Aerial Military operations,  American,  Military participation