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Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

WWII's only Black female unit will finally get Congressional Gold Medal

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The House voted Monday to award the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal....
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

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Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decora...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Lawrence N. Brooks, oldest US veteran of WWII dies at 112

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Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. - and believed to be the oldest man in the country - died on Wednesday at ...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

New bill would provide GI Bill benefits to descendants of Black World War II veterans

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Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation that would repay the families of Black American veterans who served in World War II...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Tuskegee Airman gets diploma 80 years after high school

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James Shipley, who was unable to finish high school but went on to serve as crew chief for the famed Tuskegee Airman has received an ho...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Tuskegee Airman Who Flew 142 WWII Combat Missions Dies at 99

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World War II pilot Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 99. ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

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Seventy-five years after American troops landed in smoke, fire and chaos on the beaches of Normandy, France, a Maryland woman is fightin...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

New Book “Sweet Georgia Brown: Impact, Courage, Sacrifice, and Will” Is a Chronicle of the Military Achievements of Black Women During World War II

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Lawrence E. Walker is a native of New Jersey, president and CEO of PureHistory.org, an online social search engine and media network foc...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Tuskegee Airman who went missing during World War II identified 73 years later

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The Defense Department announced Friday that it has accounted for the first of more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airm...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Black World War II veteran finally promoted to second lieutenant after 76 years

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Seventy-six years after being denied his officer status in the U.S. Army, a Philadelphia man was ceremoniously commissioned Friday as a ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

WWII veteran awarded long lost medals at age 99

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Richard Bell Jr. made the 12-hour, overnight hauls by starlight. A driver during WWII in the famed Red Ball Express, he was one of a g...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner George Watson dies

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George Watson Sr. of Lakewood NJ, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen has died. He was 96. Mr. Watson died of complications due to p...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Tuskegee Airman Buford A. Johnson dead at 89

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Buford A. Johnson, a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic and crew chief in the Army Air Corps and U.S. Air Force and spent his reti...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

99 year old Tuskegee Airman to lead Memorial Day parade

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One of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen will lead the township's 55th Annual Memorial Day Parade this year. Charles Nolley, a 9...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Black WWII veteran receives 6 long-overdue medals

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A World War II veteran who is the last-known living Buffalo-area resident to have served in a segregated unit has received six long-...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Oldest remaining Tuskegee Airman, Willie N. Rogers , dies at 101

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We have lost another one, another hero, another example of excellence, we have lost another Tuskegee Airmen. God bless his soul. Will...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Special honor: Stretch of Indiana Highway renamed to recognize Tuskegee Airmen

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Those who drive on Interstate 65 through Jackson County (Indiana) will be reminded that America’s first African-American aviators and ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Tuskegee Airman Eugene Jackson, 92, dies

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A Portland native who belonged to a groundbreaking World War II fighter squadron that helped lead the way toward desegregation of the U....
Monday, September 07, 2015

Tuskegee airman, WWII hero from N.J., dies at 90

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Calvin Spann, a New Jersey native and one of the original Tuskegee airmen, died Sunday at his home in Texas. He was 90. Spann, who was ...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

President Obama honors nation's oldest veteran

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President Obama honored a very special veteran Friday: 110-year-old Emma Didlake. A resident of Detroit, Didlake is believed to be t...