TUSKEGEE AIRMAN BILLY FAUNTRY

 97 year old Billy Fauntroy grew up in DC. His first job was at the U.S. Patent Office as a copy puller. He was eventually promoted to the position of library assistant in the in USPO’s Scientific Library. Drawn by a sense of patriotism, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps at Camp Lee in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on May 16, 1944, attending basic training at Camp Keesler, Mississippi. After finishing basic training and some additional testing, he qualified for and was assigned to Tuskegee Army Air Field as a pre-aviation cadet in July of 1944.