{"id":2239,"date":"2018-05-06T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=2239"},"modified":"2018-05-06T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:27:04","slug":"civilian-pilot-training-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/civilian-pilot-training-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Pilot Training Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Civilian Pilot Training Program was a government-sponsored effort to increase the number of civilian pilots, creating a supply of pre-trained pilots for later use in the military. It existed from 1938 to 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Many universities participated in this program, among them Northwestern University, where Tom applied in May, 1942.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Civilian_Pilot_Training_Program.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2240\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Civilian_Pilot_Training_Program-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Civilian_Pilot_Training_Program-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Civilian_Pilot_Training_Program.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland(Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After completion of training and obtaining a private pilots&#8217; license, graduates were expected to be drawn into the army or navy.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civilian Pilot Training Program was a government-sponsored effort to increase the number of civilian pilots, creating a supply of pre-trained pilots for later use in the military. It existed from 1938 to 1944. Many universities participated in this program, among them Northwestern University, where Tom applied in May, 1942. After completion of training and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/civilian-pilot-training-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Civilian Pilot Training Program<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions\/2241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}