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Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Lt. Col. Charles Dryden Lt. Col. Charles Dryden
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Other authors / contributors: | Dryden, Charles W. (Charles Walter), interviewee.
Merriday, Jodi, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns. Jodi Merriday, interviewer. Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2004 September 20. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Tuskegee Airman Charles W. Dryden was born on September 16, 1920, in New York City to Jamaican parents. He earned his B.A. degree in political science from Hofstra University and his M.A. degree in public law and government from Columbia University. In August 1941, Dryden was selected for aviation cadet training at the Tuskegee Army Flying School in Alabama. Dryden was then named a member of the famed 99th Pursuit Squadron, and later the 332 Fighter Group, which served in the Mediterranean during World War II. On June 9, 1943 Dryden led a flight of six pilots engaging enemy fighter aircraft in aerial combat over Pantelleria, Sicily. It was the first time in aviation history that black American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps engaged aircraft in combat. Following the war, Dryden became a professor of air science at Howard University, retiring in 1962. Dryden passed away on June 24, 2008 at age 88.
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