[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0217]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ADDRESSING the fifth class of fighter pilots to graduate from the advanced flying school of the Army Air Force at the Eagle Pass, Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Texas, Lieut. Col. John W. Long, (standing) of 3017 NW 24th st., Oklahoma City, Okla., told the new flying officers that air power is necessary to win the war, as our own ground forces have but recently learned."
Date: June 17, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History