Flight Test Certification of Then-2nd Lt. Joseph Laughlin, June 1941

Flight Test Certification of Then-2nd Lt. Joseph Laughlin, June 1941

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, completed at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, just 6 months and a day before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Because of the attack, Colonel Laughlin would not have another Instrument Flight Check for almost a year.

Army Air Corps

National Museum of the United States Air Force - Research Division

United States Air Force

June 6, 1941