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Graduation Announcement, Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, Class 44-G, Spence Field, Moultrie, Georgia, August 1944

Graduation Announcement, Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, Class 44-G, Spence Field, Moultrie, Georgia, August 1944

This formal announcement records the graduation of Class 44-G from Spence Field near Moultrie, Georgia, under the Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command on August 4, 1944. The accompanying card for graduate Jeff D. Goodson, Jr. shows a telling hand correction, his rank altered from Lieutenant to Flight Officer, illustrating the variable commissioning outcomes cadets faced at the close of wartime pilot training. Spence Field was one of many Georgia airfields that trained the thousands of pilots needed for the Army Air Forces during World War II. Project: 218571