By Avis Thomas Lester Urban News Service More than 16,000 Tuskegee Airmen made history, but now only about 250 remain. They see each other mostly at funerals these days. When the heroes returned some from overseas after World War II, they were still treated as second-class citizens in the south. They were simply known as […]
2 Tuskegee Airmen, Both 91, Die on Same Day in Los Angeles
By John Rogers, Associated Press January 16, 2015 This April 7, 2011 photo by Bruce Talamon shows Clarence E. “Buddy” Huntley Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all-black squadron that flew in World War II, posing with a P-51C Mustang fighter plane similar to the one that he was a crew […]