Martin L. Cook photograph collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1945.

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Martin L. Cook photograph collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1945.

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Five photographs depicting Martin Cook at various stages in his life. Three of the photographs date from his training and service with the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

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Thomas Balch Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7159499

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Tuskegee Army Flying School (Tuskegee, Ala.)

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Cook, Martin L. (Martin Leslie), 1923-2002

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African American aeronautical engineer. Martin Leslie Cook was born on 1 Apr. 1923, the second child of J. Leslie and Bertha Cook. Throughout his childhood in Purcellville, Va., he was fascinated with mechanics and airplanes. One of the most memorable events of his youth was a plane ride his grandfather, Joe Cook, paid for him and two sisters to take when he was five or six. Martin was valedictorian in the 1940 graduating class of Loudoun County Training School in Leesbu...