in 1941. With his first book, The New York Times magazine called the final chapter "one of the best descriptions of a test pilot's job ever written." Affiliations Peck was also a member of The National Aeronautic Association and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. He was also Pennsylvania's Secretary of the National Airmen's Association and Progressive Negro Organization. Death James Peck died in May 1996 in San Diego, California. See also Abraham Lincoln Brigade Spanish Republican Air Force Military history of African Americans Salaria Kee, the only African-American female volunteer nurse in the Spanish Republic List of Spanish Civil War flying aces References Bibliography Broadnax, Samuel L. "Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation." Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2007 Buckley, Gail Lumet . "American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm." 2001 Stanley, Sandler. "Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II." Smithsonian Institution Press 1998 External links African Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1912 births 1996 deaths American people of the Spanish Civil War African-American military personnel Spanish Civil War flying aces 20th-century African-American people