#2740061 - 06/09/09 02:40 PM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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Richard S. "Rip" Harder, Brooklyn, Class 44-B; unidentified airman; Thurston L. Gaines Jr., Freeport, N.Y., Class 44-G; Newman C. Golden, Cincinnati, Class 44-G; Wendell M. Lucas, Fairmont Heights, Maryland, Class 44-E. 
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#2740084 - 06/09/09 03:06 PM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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The audacity of someone to say, or even think, another human being cannot have the mental capacity to do something because of the color of his/her skin is just so incomprehensively idiotic and morally reprehensible, that I am at a loss of words.
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#2740478 - 06/10/09 03:42 AM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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Those are some really sweet pics.. I thought I had most of what was available on the web.. but don't have these... ~!S!
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#2740729 - 06/10/09 02:52 PM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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Brave men fighting for freedom in Europe when they themselves didn't have that at home in many states. Like the chap Eugene Bulalrd, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Bullard , from WWW1 who fought with the French Lafayette Squadron but was not allowed to fly with The US Air Service as he was black. By the way - Isn't there a new Tuskegee airmen movie in production?
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#2742512 - 06/13/09 06:16 AM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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Great story about Edward C. Gleed and the nose art dont you think? Not sure if I heard it... I heard the one about the coke.. of course.. and the motorcycle... the drop tanks.. the great train robbery.. and more.. but I am not sure about the nose art.... inless you mean the nude painting on Creamer's Dream... That P-40 has the serial number of Robert Diez' plane.
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#2742665 - 06/13/09 03:03 PM
Re: Tuskegee Airmen
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Lt. Charles White (301st FS, 332nd FG, Tuskegee Airmen) was one of the first 332nd fighter group pilots to fly a P-51D. After joining the group as a replacement pilot, he had received a war-weary P-51C. White's complaints about its unreliability led his commanding officer to allocate this early P-51D directly to Lt. White. So inspired by the allocation White painted a nude on both sides of the new fighter's fuselage, with a rear view to port and front view to starboard. Nope that story I hadn't heard....
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