Clayton Knight Committee collection, 1939-1967.

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Clayton Knight Committee collection, 1939-1967.

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A collection of personal and official papers relating to Knight's role in the founding of the Clayton Knight Committee, a system designed to recruit American aviators into the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) between 1939 and 1942.

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US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8117431

US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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France. ArmeĢe. Escadrille Lafayette.

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Knight, Clayton, 1891-1969

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Clayton Knight was an author and illustrator of children's and young adult literature. He died in 1969. From the guide to the Clayton Knight Papers, undated, (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries) The Clayton Knight Committee, established by Clayton Knight and Billy Bishop, was a covert and illegal recruitment agency established in 1940 to transport Americans to Canada to train and fight fo...