Flight Test Certification of Then-2nd Lt. Joseph Laughlin, September 1940

Flight Test Certification of Then-2nd Lt. Joseph Laughlin, September 1940

One of several instrument flight tests Colonel Laughlin would complete in the Army Air Corps

In order to make sure pilots were combat ready and effective, the Army Air Corps required Instrument Flight Tests be completed every six months. This one was completed at Wheeler Field in Hawaii, just under a year before the attacks at Pearl Harbor would destroy his and his squadrons' planes and lead the U.S. into war.

Army Air Corps

National Museum of the United States Air Force - Research Division

United States Air Force

December 23, 1940