Premium parking ($10) is available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the CarShield Field west parking lot. Cash is the only form of payment accepted.
Free, general parking is available at Fort Zumwalt North High School and Christian High School (both on Tom Ginnever Avenue).
Accessible (ADA) parking is available only at Westhoff Park. Free shuttle service will transport patrons to the festival entrance.
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HANDING OUT FIREWORKS IS PROHIBITED.
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Tuskegee Airmen is the name given to members of the U.S. Army Air Force units in World War II that were comprised primarily of African American flyers and maintenance crews, though a few white officers and trainers were also involved. The group compiled an impressive record, primarily in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, despite facing frequent resistance to their presence in the formerly all-white Army Air Corps.
The pilots and support personnel – both military and civilian, male and female – that served with the segregated 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group during World War II and before the integration of the Armed Forces are considered Tuskegee Airmen. The name originates from the segregated flying training program at Tuskegee Institute Army Air Corps Program, a unit at Tuskegee Army Air Field, located in Tuskegee, Alabama.
The WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) were female pilots who volunteered to fly American military airplanes during World War II. At the time, it was thought that women would be incapable of flying such advanced airplanes – and that they should not be involved in the military in any aviation capacity. But there was a serious shortage of available pilots on the homefront. Many female pilots wanted to help; in order to do this, they needed to convince the top brass that they could do it. To serve their country, these courageous women overcame the challenges raised by those who believed women couldn’t fly.
The WASP program was formed by combining the WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) and the WFTD (Women’s Flying Training Detachment), two units that were set up separately to allow female pilots to support the activities of the military. They were combined as the WASP Program in July 1943.