The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Master's Theses 8-2014 Jackson's Flying Dutchmen: The Significance of the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School Samuel Howard Ward University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses Recommended Citation Ward, Samuel Howard, "Jackson's Flying Dutchmen: The Significance of the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School" (2014). Master's Theses. 34. https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/34 This Masters Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi JACKSON’S FLYING DUTCHMEN: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS MILITARY FLYING SCHOOL by Samuel Howard Ward A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Approved: _Dr. Andrew Wiest____________________ Committee Chair _Dr. Allison Abra_____________________ _Dr. Kenneth Swope__________________ _Dr. Maureen Ryan____________________ Dean of the Graduate School August 2014 ABSTRACT JACKSON’S FLYING DUTCHMEN: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS MILITARY FLYING SCHOOL by Samuel Howard Ward August 2014 From May 1942 thru February 1944, the United States allowed the Netherlands to train its aviators at Jackson Army Air Base. Known as the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School, the training the Dutch conducted helped rebuild the Royal Netherland Air Force and the air component of the Royal Netherland Navy. The Dutch military came to Jackson because they lost their territory to foreign invaders.