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Tuskegee Airman and retired Lt. Col. George Hardy with children at Robert L. Taylor Community Complex in Sarasota, Florida, in 2013. He's buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Officer T64640 New York NY, Reynolds, Clarence E.,Jr. WebApproximately half of the black men that graduated from Tuskegee fought in the European and Mediterranean wars as combat mission fighter pilots. The U.S. military was fully integrated 1948, just three years after his Tuskegee Airmen flew their final combat mission. Like many American boys of his era, he was thrilled by the emergence of flight and by the new image of daredevil pilots spiraling through the skies across America in the first decades of the 20th century. Officer T70561 Oberlin OH, Selden, Wiley W. 43-F-SE 6/30/1943 2nd Lt. 08071 08 Norfolk VA, Sessions, Mansfield L. 45-C-SE 5/23/1945 2nd Lt. 0842885 Los Angeles CA, Sheats, George H. 45-B-SE 4/15/1945 2nd Lt. 0842585 New Haven CT, Shepherd, James H. 44-G-TE 8/4/1944 Flt. Before the first African American military pilots became known as the "Red Tails" they wore striped tails as they began their flight training in the Army's PT-17 Adkins, Rutherford H. 44-I-1-SE 10/16/1944 2nd Lt. 0838152 Alexandria VA. Officer T68708 Birmingham AL, Merton, Joseph L.,Jr. 44-I-I-SE 10/16/1944 2nd Lt. 0838159 White Plains NY, Simpson, Jesse H. 44-G-TE 8/4/1944 Flt. 46-A-TE 3/23/1946 Flt. Some 14,000 Tuskegee Airmen served in World War II, including hundreds of its now-legendary fighter pilots. Charles "Chief" Anderson put the wind beneath the wings of the Tuskegee Airmen. Officer T70223 Detroit MI, Fuller, Willie H. 42-G-SE 8/5/1942 2nd Lt. 0790934 Tarboro NC, Funderburg, Frederick D. 43-K-SE 12/5/1943 2nd Lt. 0817585 Monticello GA, Gaines, Thurston L., Jr. 44-G-SE 8/4/1944 Flt. "We went out to the aviation field, where a Civil Aeronautics unit for the teaching of colored pilots is in full swing," first lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote on April 1, 1941, in her nationally syndicated "My Day" column. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks, and other support personnel. The daring pair also made a long-distance flight to Canada.

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