Titled 'My First Group,' this April 1943 scrapbook page records one of the earliest classes of Naval Aviation Cadets to pass through the Greenwood, South Carolina War Training Service site. Cadets pose beside the light primary trainers used for initial flight instruction before advancing to Naval Air Station Nashville for further screening. The accompanying handwritten rosters - naming cadets such as Lippert, Fort, Adamski, Ottinger, Graves, Haugen, and Greene - personalize the mass wartime effort that trained tens of thousands of Naval Aviators between 1942 and 1945. Project: 218570