Class Year
2005
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The 55th College Training Detachment of the Air Force Cadet Program came to Gettysburg College in 1943. It was a separate program designed to provide educated officers for the Air Corps in the United States Army. These trainees would not only learn military drill, physical training, medical aid and flight skills, but they would also study physics, math, English, history, and geography. They were taught by members of the Gettysburg College staff and housed on campus, in dorms and fraternity houses.Their presence on campus was a constant reminder for regular students that the country was in the midst of a war.
Recommended Citation
Grover, Julia
(2004)
"The 55th College Training Detachment of the Army Air Corps Program On the Gettysburg College Campus, 1943-1944,"
The Gettysburg Historical Journal: Vol. 3, Article 8.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol3/iss1/8