https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.98123/



Biography courtesy of https://www.nga.mil/news/NGA_Spotlight_on_Christopher_Newman_and_Everett_Br.html

Everett Bratcher grew up in northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and graduated from Tuskegee with a commission in 1943. The military stationed him in Walterboro, S.C., where many of the Tuskegee Airmen received their final months of combat training and there was a need for non-white officers, he said.

Newman’s and Bratcher’s interest in flying and aviation didn’t end with their military careers.

Newman said he would have liked to have continued flying as a profession after the military, but “pilots were a dime a dozen after the war.” Instead, Newman and Bratcher joined an NGA predecessor agency, the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, which later became the Defense Mapping Agency, both in St. Louis, to help create maps and charts for U.S. pilots.

After time with the U.S. Post Office, Newman worked for ACIC and DMA from 1966-81 as an aeronautical information technician and specialist.

Bratcher worked at ACIC and DMA from 1956-82 as a cartographer, often specializing in photogrammetry, the process of extracting 3-D information from photographs.

“We did maps for whatever they needed,” Bratcher said in a documentary interview in 2014. “Most of the active-duty aviation maps came out of the chart plant.”

Bratcher said his association with ACIC allowed him access to Scott air field in nearby Illinois, where he would take the opportunity to fly recreationally with the Scott air club “once or twice a month.” Even 30 years after the war, “there were very few non-white [pilots],” he said.

*The preceding content is not intended as a comprehensive biography, but it highlights their significance as a result of military or civilian distinction, lasting achievements, or association with impactful national events. 

Lt Everett A Bratcher and two aunts after graduation

News article for Everett A Bratcher after graduating as a Tuskegee airmen. 

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