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Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.  Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II.

To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S.as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded.Did the state follow the federal government's lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced?How did the state's cultural institutions and government react?.

Celebrated orchestra leader Glenn Miller found Alabama's Maxwell Field air base a felicitous stopover on his path to the creation of an innovative music organization that functioned as both military marching band and super dance orchestra. Newton tells the story of Miller's Army Air Forces Band during World War II.

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government's lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the state's cultural institutions and government react? What changes occurred in its economy and way of life? What, if any, were the long-term consequences in Alabama? The contributors to this volume address these questions and establish a base for further investigation of the state during this era. Contributors:David Alsobrook, Wilson Fallin Jr., Robert J. Jakeman, Dowe Littleton, Martin T. Olliff, Victoria E. Ott, Wesley P. Newton, Michael V. R. Thomason, Ruth Smith Truss, and Robert Saunders Jr.

The road to merger is strewn with fortuitous events, surprises, and disappointments for most firms even under ordinary circumstances, but the airline industry following World War II faced special problems of postwar readjustment, rapid technological change, and government intervention by a Civil Aeronautics Board that was determined to shape the future of American commercial aviation. Congruence with federal regulatory policy was a key element in the success of the merger with which this essay deals.

Newton discusses the origins and early development of civil aviation in Montgomery AL. Among other things, he mentions that in 1910, with the aid of the Montgomery Commercial Club, the Wright brothers established a school on flat land a few miles northwest of hilly downtown Montgomery for teaching civilians to fly, but it lasted only a few months.

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the state’s cultural institutions and government react? What changes occurred in its economy and way of life? What, if any, were the long-term consequences in Alabama? The contributors to this volume address these questions and establish a base for further investigation of the state during this era.  Contributors: David Alsobrook, Wilson Fallin Jr., Robert J. Jakeman, Dowe Littleton, Martin T. Olliff, Victoria E. Ott, Wesley P. Newton, Michael V. R. Thomason, Ruth Smith Truss, and Robert Saunders Jr.

James McCullin was among nine to graduate with Class 42-H on September 6, 1942.2 The numbers in subsequent classes increased as news spread of these first black flight trainees in the history of the American armed forces. There was a special pride in these young men and those who knew them when they were successful in attaining the rank of second lieutenant and wearing the silver wings of an Army Air Forces pilot.3 White and McCullin were among the initial pilots assigned to the 99th Pursuit (later Fighter) Squadron, the first black tactical air unit in the history of the American Armed Forces.