Two proud portraits from a flight instructor's V-5 scrapbook capture cadet candidates Mitchell James Kandis and William N. Killebrew beside their monoplane trainer, aircraft No. 19. Kandis is singled out as the instructor's 'first solo student,' commemorating the milestone moment every cadet anticipated: flying an aircraft alone for the first time. Such first-solo photographs were a cherished tradition at the primary and elimination flight schools that screened thousands of young men for the Navy's wartime aviation cadet program. Project: 218571