Randolph Field
Class 42-X, Randolph Army Air Field, San Antonio, Texas

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Authors:

J. Gordon Scott, Jr., Editor

Contributors:

Stephen Quint

Published: December 1942

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Item: 000333

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Comments: 5 (see below)

Categories:

Class Books
Pilots
Training
Training, Basic Flight

Class/Unit Number:

42-X: Class 42-X

Special Features:

Cartoon by Caniff - Includes a cartoon by Milton Caniff
History of Class - Includes a class narrative or history
Hometowns - Includes cadets' hometowns

Locations:

Randolph Army Air Field; San Antonio, Texas, USA

Contributors:

Stephen Quint

Repositories:

Private Collection

Related Items:

000405: Randolph Field, 1938
San Antonio, Texas
000041: Randolph Field, Texas

Added: February 10, 2013

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Class book for basic pilot class 42-X at Randolph Army Air Field, San Antonio, Texas.

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[1] Chip (15-Nov-2013 09:44 PM)

thank you so much for making this available to us. My papaw is in this book. I had never seen him in his helmet.

[2] Sam (23-Feb-2015 04:11 PM)

what happened to the pictures? when I opened the file, all of the pictures were covered with a strange dot-matrix-like pattern?

[3] Mike Voisin (23-Feb-2015 04:45 PM)

Sam, the pattern is called a moire pattern and it's a result of scanning the book. Some books are printed with tiny dots that cause moire patterns when scanned. Sometimes it can be controlled by applying a de-interlacing filter as it's scanned. In this case, this is the best copy I have.

[4] SamEugenePennartz (29-Jun-2022 09:58 AM)

KIA: 19 May 1945, B-29 Superfortress (#44-69961) Pilot, O668353, Anton Thomas Obert, Basic Pilot Class 42-X, December 1942

[5] Sarah Morrison Stephens (27-Mar-2024 04:27 AM)

My father, Charles Tuttle (Speedy) Morrison was a member of Hap Arnold's Guinea Pigs, also known as 42-X. If anyone has photos from that class, please contact me at editorsarah@yahoo.com.

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